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- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
- Eat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to cook and love to eat.
- Bachelor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never impressed with myself!
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a character when I worked at Disney, but I wasn't short enough for certain characters, and I wasn't tall enough for others.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a doodler.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to learn how to write each book.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.
- Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am stuck at 10 years old. I think.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Michael Bond, 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 'Stuart Little' by EB White, 'A Cricket in Times Square,' all the Beverly Cleary books.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never happened... I would sometimes spend the summer with him and visit him, but he never lived with us.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020