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Meg Cabot
American
Author
Born:
Feb 1
,
1967
Book
Love
Me
People
Writing
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
Meg Cabot
You
People
Later
Laugh
Famous
Them
Your
Show
Rejections
Save
I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
Meg Cabot
Got
Math
Veterinarian
Wanted
Really
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.
Meg Cabot
Me
Book
World
Books
Introduced
Never
Since
Also
Mostly
Read
Sci-Fi
Narrative
First-Person
Comic
Comic Books
Discovered
Austen
Left
Up
Romance
Which
Jane
Jane Austen
Then
Growing
Growing Up
Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
Meg Cabot
Great
Character
Strong
Characters
Strong Female
Make
Equally
Female
Narrative
Female Characters
Material
Mix
Male
Same
Decisions
Might
Even
Necessarily
When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
Meg Cabot
Alone
Time
You
Whatever
Spend
Outsider
Feel
Like
Lot
Reason
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.
Meg Cabot
Love
Alone
Time
Musicians
People
Become
Spending
Spending Time
Athletes
Computer
Writers
Practicing
How
How Many People
Scientists
Artists
Many
Programmers
I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.
Meg Cabot
Best
Home
Class
Kid
Drawing
Kind
Academically
Well
Because
Always
Making
Making Up
Up
Very
Grades
Stop
Stories
Little
Notebooks
Really
Who
Bringing
Margins
My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
Meg Cabot
Day
Mom
Family
Sit
Our
Tell
TV
Ate
Table
About
Had
Allowed
Around
Were
Italian
Irish
Stories
Story
While
Dad
Watch
In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
Meg Cabot
Creative
Writing
School
College
Become
Took
High
Some
High School
Until
Courses
Got
Wanted
Decided
Then
Creative Writing
Novelist
Actress
We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
Meg Cabot
Funny
Family
Tool
Humour
Tried
Brother
Attention
Always
Were
Very
Get
Trying
Which
Funniest
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.
Meg Cabot
Illustrations
Draw
Write
Like
Because
Leave
Just
Anymore
Used
Professional
Actual
Illustrate
When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.
Meg Cabot
Best
Good
Good Friends
Other
Kid
Some
Had
Like
Couple
Friends
Than
Really
Shy
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
Meg Cabot
Life
Character
You
Change
Book
People
Real Life
Relative
Bit
Mad
Characters
About
Case
Know
Wrote
Because
Reads
Real
Friend
Get
Want
Little
Little Bit
Them
Might
Your
Based
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.
Meg Cabot
Something
Writer
Arises
Wrong
Block
Story
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