“TV’s
not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to
creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book,
then you don't want to write a book bad enough.” –
Andrea Seigel
Young Adult novelist Seigel – who grew up in
California and then did her writing education on the East Coast (at Brown and
Bennington) – turns 37 today and says she’s a great example of how an introvert
can be succerssful in an extrovert’s world.
Author of 4 novels with a 5th on the way, she also has become
a successful screenwriter and has had 2 of her books – The Kid Table and Everybody Knows Your Name turned
into films.
She’s also been the
subject of a script, featured on the public radio podcast Mystery Show, and was the focus of an episode of NPR’s popular This
American Life program, for a rare neurological disorder from which she
suffers.
Popular with young
readers for her realistic portrayals, 
she said she has simple advice for
beginning writers about what to remember when they are submitting their
work. “Try to remember that decisions are made by individual,
fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.”
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