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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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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."
"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."
"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."
"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."
"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."
"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."
"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."
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"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
"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."
"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
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