Brent Runyon Quotes

United States, Writer
1977

Brent Runyon (or Brenner) is a contemporary writer for young adults. He has written three books. The first is a memoir, The Burn Journals (2004); the other two are novels, Maybe (2006), and Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers (2009). The Burn Journals has been nominated for a Georgia Peach Award for Young Readers.

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

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- Long
- Writing
- Book
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

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- Work
- Trying

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

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- Family
- Friends
- Mother
I write in a rush of memory.

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I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

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