4 Quotes & Sayings By Adriana Mather

Adriana Mather is a self-taught writer. She studied Spanish, History and International Relations in college, but it took her years to finish her first novel. When she was twenty-two, she figured out the story she’d been waiting to tell for so long. But she didn’t have time to start writing—she was busy working as a foreign correspondent in Central America Read more

So she set aside her novel and moved to Venezuela, where she lived for six years. There, she wrote three more novels and worked as a reporter for two newspapers. Her first novel, The Midnight Star (2012), was published and her second novel and first book of poetry, The Emancipated (2013), will be released this fall.

Adriana lives with her husband and their two children in Michigan, where she is drinking tea and dreaming of another book.

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You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it. Adriana Mather
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My dad always says that you don't get to choose what happens in the world, only how you react to it. Adriana Mather
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If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all creatures, that dog will bite him. And then he may tell everyone that he was right about dogs, that they are evil. But I ask you, who is at fault in this scenario, the man or the dog? Adriana Mather