- 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
I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people hear I have six kids and 16 grandkids, they think, 'Oh, boy, you must get a lot of stories from them.' I don't. It's not like I'm behind the sofa in the living room taking notes while the grandkids carry on.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020