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"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."
"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."
"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."
"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
"A friend is a favourable family."
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
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"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."
"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
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