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"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
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"But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people."
"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
"My life is my book, but I can't read it."
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
"Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today."
"IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story."
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"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there."
"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus."
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