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Anne Spollen

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Born

Staten Island, New York now living in South Jersey, The United States

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Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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The Brontes, Mary Shelley, Overworked Editors who gave me sound advice

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May 2008

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I was born in Staten Island, New York and grew up by the Atlantic Ocean. In the first grade, I turned over a book and saw that a human had created it. I asked my teacher how people got to write books. She said, "They read all the time." I took this very, very seriously.

I went away to New Paltz College and after graduating, I got a teaching job there and stayed. Teaching adverbial clauses and meeting with state auditors to discuss literacy scores was soul crushing so when my first son was born, I stayed home and returned to writing poetry while he napped. I eventually wrote faster (he napped less and soon had a new brother) and began writing short stories. Even better, editors began buying them. Eventually, my first novel, The Shape of Water ...more

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I haven't been around much on the Internet lately. Actually, I haven't been around much at all. My mom was in the hospital for surgery and you know how crazy it gets when you have someone in the hospital. You sort of dash around living on coffee (hey, it's from a plant source, right? add milk and you've got calcium, a cheese danish with cherries and you've go Read more of this blog post »

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“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light.”
― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

tags: silence, water

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“I believed I could identify the scent of the sky as I stood there, a blue menthol fragrance similar to the scent of seawater that sprayed into my face when I first dove into the ocean. That initial scent was much more subtle than the ocean's heavy, fishy aroma; it was a whiff of salt and mint, just as I approached the water on a dive, that warned me that a more powerful scent would soon enter my nose. It was the scent I dreamed in. And it was the scent of that spring sky as I stood in my yard.”
― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

tags: ocean, scent, sky

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“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.”
― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

tags: ocean, silence

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Anne’s Quotes

“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.”
― Socrates

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“The room had the impersonal, disconnected feel of a waiting room on Jupiter.”
― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

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“Ma, Kyle has the personality of a light switch. I don't have a crush on him. -Now, what exactly is that sentence supposed to mean? - I mean, he has two moods, and the presence of something that was created to go unnoticed throughout life. Like a light switch: on, off, there when you need it, forgettable when you don't.”
― Anne Spollen, Light Beneath Ferns

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