- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020