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"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."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"
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"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."

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

"I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay."

"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."

"I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading."

"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"

"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness."

"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."

"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."

"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."
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