Robin Wasserman
Robin Wasserman
Robin Wassermanis an American young adult novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 May 1978
CountryUnited States of America
awakens impulses waking
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
authors characters claims hear might voices whatever
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
along elaborate escape fleet imaginary instead invented inventing routes scenarios searching secret spies swing top
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
finding-yourself one-day wake-up
You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.
secret want not-sure
I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?
writing jumping way
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
powerful war greatness
And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.
life lying care
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.
dark towns waking
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
past years looks
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
dark dark-things dark-places
Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.
teenager fiction matter
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.
law ability-to-change dangerous
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.
memories imagination brain
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.