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At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Any
Any Given Time
Buddy
Buddy Holly
Clear
Day
Eve
Given
Goes
Green
Green Day
Holly
I Write
King
List
Listen
Listening
Lyrics
Music
Paul
Rarely
Sean
Sing
Start
Time
Typing
While
Write
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Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
About
Anymore
Awful
Book
Cancer
Character
Even
Forget
Going
Good
Had
Horrible
How
Magical
Make
Nonstop
Now
Point
Reached
Read
Real
Sometimes
Think
Through
Too
Where
While
Worry
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Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Any
Ask
Brain
Doctors
Patient
Say
Thing
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Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Because
Bright
Brighter
Dark
Days
Even
Give
Hardly
Make
Seem
Spite
Stand
Succeed
Them
Up
You
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I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Asking
Dad
Get
Get A Real
Going
I Love
Job
Love
Me
Real
Real Job
Stopped
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I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Characters
Enter
I Can
I Think
Live
Mirrors
More
Only
See
Than
Things
Think
Through
Wish
Words
World
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I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
About
Become
Books
Characters
Classic
Each
Eating
Escape
Food
Good
Hiding
How
Know
Lot
Main
Might
People
Queen
Really
Relationships
Some
Some People
Struggle
Sugar
Them
Three
Way
Wrong
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I'm a huge fan of Alice Hoffman, Fred Chappell and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Alice
Elizabeth
Fan
Fred
Huge
Huge Fan
Susan
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Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Almost
Be True
Blending
Could
Full
Happenings
Involves
Lot
Magical
Me
Ordinary
Otherwise
Perfectly
Queen
Realism
Setting
South
Southern
Sugar
Supernatural
Things
True
Unusual
Very
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My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
After
Books
Calories
Chocolate
Favorite
Hours
Like
Linger
Make
Me
Readers
Reading
Smile
Sort
Sweetness
Them
Want
Without
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My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Arc
Cast
Change
Down
General
Idea
Organic
Process
Sit
Start
Story
Then
Things
Very
Write
Writing
Writing Process
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The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Cat
Consistently
Day
Desk
Different
Different Times
I Think
I Write
More
Most
Part
Ritual
Thing
Think
Times
Write
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There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
About
Am
Back
Career
Choice
Daydream
Feels
Fun
Garbage
How
I Am
Intrinsic
Keep
Like
Me
Natural
Old
Pursue
Ride
Singing
Still
Though
Truck
Truthfully
Try
Who
Would
Would-Be
Write
Writing
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Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Am
Books
Culmination
I Am
I Am What I Am
Lifetime
Many
More
Progress
Read
Reading
Still
Stories
Who
Work
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