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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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"I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait."
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"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
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