"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."

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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."

Idea, School, Teachers

"I think really good books can be read by anybody."

Books,

"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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"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."

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"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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"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."

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"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."

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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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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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