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Cassandra Clare

American Author

Born: Jul 27, 1973

Book Characters Love People Think You

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I love scuba-diving, but I hate all the equipment. Cassandra Clare

Love Hate Equipment

Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like. Experiment; try new stuff and try new genres. If you read a lot of romance, then start reading mystery. If you read a lot of mystery, start reading fantasy. Cassandra Clare

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We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art. Cassandra Clare

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. Cassandra Clare

You Write Writer Well Read Reader Want

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is. Cassandra Clare

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Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. Cassandra Clare

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In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes. Cassandra Clare

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I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be. Cassandra Clare

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You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them. Cassandra Clare

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You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it be about Harriett Potter because nobody would read it; people only want to read an adventure story if it's about a boy,' and I thought, 'I don't think that's true.' Cassandra Clare

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My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. Cassandra Clare

Sets Up Movie Grew Grandfather Producer

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture. Cassandra Clare

Nature Father Nurture Big Over Big Believer Believer

I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything. Cassandra Clare

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As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image. Cassandra Clare

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I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines. Cassandra Clare

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'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership. Cassandra Clare

City Hated Angels Equally Readership Fallen Ended Loved

I am in the U.K. for inspiration because I'm doing a follow on series to 'The Infernal Devices,' called 'The Last Hours.' It's a re-telling of 'Great Expectations' with 'Shadowhunters'... because why not! It's set in 1903, so I'm doing a lot of locational research. Cassandra Clare

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No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love. Cassandra Clare

Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song or a piece of music with a particular character or scene, it helps me get back into the head of that character. Cassandra Clare

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