'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions.… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed.” — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade knedliky . It's home. They… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“See them in their golden hour, a flood of girls high on the ecstasy of the final bell, tumbling onto the city bus, all… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“They would fade away-and I would be left alone to face the people at school,and the reporters,and Adriane,and all the places where Max had… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“See, wrong guys think they're good. Evil guys don't think at all. They're just evil. And kind of lame. So whick are you?” — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
