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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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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
Idea
"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
Children
"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."
Expectation
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
Books
"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."
Experience
"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
Enthusiasm
"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
Day
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
Books
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
Kids
"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."
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Personal Development
"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."
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Personal Development
"I did feel from day one that I was a born performer."
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Personal Development
"A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day."
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Personal Development
"Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment."
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Personal Development
"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."
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Personal Development
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