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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love teaching; I love little kids.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
- Routine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
- Excitement
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.
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- Nov 07, 2020