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"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."
"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."
"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."
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"I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character."
"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
"I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years."
"Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact."
"The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics."
"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field."
"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
"I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines."
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