- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
- Peer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
- Author
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a children's author by accident.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020