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"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
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"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
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"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
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
Fact
"I think really good books can be read by anybody."
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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
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"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
Day
"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 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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Expectation
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