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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
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"Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone."
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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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"There is no overt rivalry among our children."
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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
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"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."
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"I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children."
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"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."
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"I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in."
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"I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary."
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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
Fact
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
Books
"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
Day
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
Conversation
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
Kids
"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
Enthusiasm
"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
Expectation
"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
Experience
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
Books
"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
Idea
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