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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.

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

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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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• ‟ I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

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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 about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.

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• ‟ 'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.

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• ‟ I don't know what my mother was thinking, but she entered me in a Little Miss contest - Little Miss Orange Blossom, I think it was. And I don't remember anything about that, except I have one flash-bulb memory of standing on the stage and thinking, 'This is not where I should be.'

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• ‟ When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

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• ‟ I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long time to commit to being a writer. Up until then, I had worked one dead-end job after another while writing on the side.

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• ‟ To me, this is one of the great things about writing kids' books: the illustrations.

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