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- Nov 07, 2020
The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like my own kids, they're not honeys and sweetie pies and little angels. They're kids. Sloppy, dirty, stinky.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.
- One Word
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could never plan your life in a million years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having a hard time and are ill.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'.
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- Nov 07, 2020