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"I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern."
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"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
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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."

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."

"I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay."

"I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed."

"I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading."

"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"

"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness."

"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."

"I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them."

"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."
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