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"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it."
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"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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