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"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
Writer
"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."
Family
"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."
Family
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
Books
"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
People
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
Books
"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."
Friendship
"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
Family
"I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind."
Mind
"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."
Imagination
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