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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
- Heart
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
- Special
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
- Family
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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- Nov 07, 2020