Ask the Author: Sandrine Alexie
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Sandrine Alexie
Nothing can equal this one : "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lied his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections."
Sandrine Alexie
I was strongly tempted by Dorne, its food and wine, and its gardens. But my final choice is Braavos because I want to be a Water Dancer (A Song of Ice and Fire, G. R.R.Martin).
Sandrine Alexie
I don't even know what I am going to read next month !
Sandrine Alexie
Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, because they have something that Austen's couples have not : the charm of ugliness (and some telepathy gifts, also).
Sandrine Alexie
Inspiration is like a turnip : something is growing underground, and suddenly it is ready to be written. Then I have to pulverize my own laziness but I can't say I feel that 'angoisse de la page blanche'.
Sandrine Alexie
That ability to vanish in another world by the power of simple things like paper, pen, or laptop.
Sandrine Alexie
Just write. Everyday, about everything. A diary is a good exercise , like playing scales daily, for a musician. Write what you want, but do it constantly. And read, read, read.
Sandrine Alexie
The 2nd tome of La Rose de Jam will be soon published: La grotte au dragon. Currently, I write the second part of the 3rd tome : Le Pôle du monde.
Sandrine Alexie
At first, an inspiring background : place, time, context. Then some characters. All my novels start with that thought : 'it would be funny if someone, in such place and such situation, had to…" and then imagination works.
Sandrine Alexie
I had the first idea of La Rose de Djam saga in 2005, mostly inspired by Baybars' saga. I enjoyed to write a story of robbers and dervishes under Saladin's rule, in Syria and Kurdistan, in regions I know very well.
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