"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."

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"To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part."

Robert Duvall, American Actor

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"I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop."

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"I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods."

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"And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"

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"We were fortunate to be there a day or two before "the big bang" and then we got the heck out of town."

Scotty Moore, American Musician

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"Be intent upon the perfection of the present day."

William Law, English Clergyman

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"Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room."

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"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."

Felix Frankfurter, American Judge

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"I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far."

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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."

Children,

"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."

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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."

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"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."

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"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."

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"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."

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"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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"I think really good books can be read by anybody."

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"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."

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"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."

People,