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Cristina Istrati

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Born

in Tecuci/Galati, Romania

Website

http://cristinaistrati.com/

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Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

F.M. Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Amanda Quick, Martina ...more

Member Since

January 2012

URL

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Cristina Istrati is an award winning published author, living in Romania (Bucharest).

She wrote her first book ( a romance novel called Seductive Ambiguity) at age 21. In March, 2009 she published it. The book was very well received by the critics and in January 2011, Cristina is awarded with Mihai Eminescu International Literature Prize.

Cristina has appeared on national television- TVR Cultural and BI TV giving interviews on her book.

In May 2011 she finished writing the manuscript of her second book – a historical romance novel called Noble Temptation, which will be published in 2014.

Along that, Cristina writes articles for magazines and posts on her blog. She is also a children`s author, working on her first fantasy novel. She loves inter ...more

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Cristina Istrati's Blog

The girl who spoke the language of stories.

I was 10 years old when I wrote my first story.

Our teacher often gave us assignments to create stories around a theme, and that week, she chose winter.
We were to describe the landscapes, the season’s essence, the way nature shifts when wrapped in frost and silence.

We were to describe the landscapes, the season’s essence, the way nature shifts when wrapped in frost and silence. That afternoon, as s

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“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”
― Cristina Istrati

tags: cristina-istrati, process, writing

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Cristina’s Quotes

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. ”
― Mary Schmich

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“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

tags: books, reading, stories, story

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“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”
― Cristina Istrati

tags: cristina-istrati, process, writing

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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: misattributed, writing

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