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"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"
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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"
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"It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure."
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"Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life."
"I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading."
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"My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too."
"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."
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