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Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Cain
American Novelist
Born: Feb 5, 1972
Love Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that. Chelsea Cain
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I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. Chelsea Cain
Time Library School Rat Reading Books Read Reading Books Walked Desk
Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives. Chelsea Cain
People Think Our Our Lives Ourselves About Know Often Even Lives
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. Chelsea Cain
Myself Books Considered Bit Kid Detective Drew Nancy Read Amateur Lot
You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt. Chelsea Cain
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People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious. Chelsea Cain
You People Kind Write Self-Conscious Stuff Over Read Makes Public Little Shoulder Your
I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised. Chelsea Cain
You Mother Will Finished Daughter Tell Feat New Praised Any Cannot Asleep Her Sufficiently Desk
My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had a lot to learn, so like good liberal arts graduates, we signed up for a class. Chelsea Cain
Good Class Husband Baby Liberal Liberal Arts Worried Kid Signed About Having Having A Baby Had Excited Like Learn Were Lot Up Graduates Arts Us
I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff. Chelsea Cain
Val Books Carol Jordan Obsessed Stuff Hill Twisted Tony
I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing. Chelsea Cain
Writing Will Assume Too Everyone Write Over Look Read Because Am Board Planes Shoulder Shy
When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism. Chelsea Cain
People School Master Assume Say City City People Writers Journalism Iowa Got Grad Grad School Often Workshop Program University
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school. Chelsea Cain
School State Back Way City Iowa Up Grad Grad School Grew Then Washington Washington State Found Eventually
Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything. Chelsea Cain
Home Me Mind Worst Consists Tell Having Couch Writer Part Like Look Because Hammer Sitting Being Anything Toddler Working Lap Laptop Keep Play Her
You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to. Chelsea Cain
You Writing Living Write Until Make Learn Want
I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job. Chelsea Cain
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Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds. Chelsea Cain
You Think Minds Say Out Tell Characters Follow Some Through Writers Pushy Sort Around Narrative Just Them Then Create Your
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach. Chelsea Cain
Love Great Architecture Ruins Markets Visited Cities Some Beach Castles Tropical Tours Fair Fair Amount Am Central Bus Sucker Even Traveled Amount Museums
I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene. Chelsea Cain
Good Women Nurturing Expectation Scene Delicate Write Know Am Cultural Mean Flowers
Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer. Chelsea Cain
You Woman Airport See Writer Most Am Violent
I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do. Chelsea Cain
People Think Assume Thrillers Read Lot Than Fewer
I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table. Chelsea Cain
Character Reading Table Kitchen Kitchen Table True True Blood Like Felt Arrived Blood Show

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