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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."
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"I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get."
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"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."
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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."
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"I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you."
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"If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts."
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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
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"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
Kids
"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
"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
Children
"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
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