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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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"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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