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Sarah Addison Allen

American Author

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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

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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

Me Natural Writing Ride Try Old Singing Garbage Back Though Intrinsic Would Would-Be About Hymn Pursue Write Truck Daydream Feels Like How Am Still Truthfully Choice Who Fun Keep Career

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

Good Character Book Sometimes Cancer Think Too Worry Horrible About Magical Point Through Had Reached Make Read How Real Nonstop Forget Going Where Anymore While Even Now Awful

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

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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

Smile Me Reading Books Favorite Like Hours Make Sort Readers Without Calories Linger Want After Them Chocolate Sweetness

Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation. Sarah Addison Allen

Expectation Magic Ice Cream

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