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"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
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"It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!"
"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
"Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"
"If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal."
"I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God's imagination."
"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness."
"In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons."
"I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get."
"There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine."
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"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."
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