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"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood."
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"Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!"
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"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."
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"In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge."
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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."
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"Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves."
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"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."
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"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
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"We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them."
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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."
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"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child."
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"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
Imagination
"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
Creativity
"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
Creativity
"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
Thinking
"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."
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"On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up."
People
"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
Language
"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
Want
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
Travel
"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
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