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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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"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
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
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Personal Development
"I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing."
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Personal Development
"I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do."
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"I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again."
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Personal Development
"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?"
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Personal Development
"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."
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Personal Development
"The first day of shooting I walk up to Christopher Walken, and I said, Should I call you Mr. Walken or Chris? He goes, "Call me Flash.""
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Personal Development
"He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day."
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Personal Development
"Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off."
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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
Children
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
Fact
"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
"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."
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."
People
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
Books
"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."
Conversation
"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
"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."
Kids
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