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"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want."
Writing
"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
Writing
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
Books
"I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun."
Time
"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
Books
"I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade."
Writing
"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
Fact
"I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe."
Love
"After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months."
Writing
"Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it."
Writing
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