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Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

~Cynthia Voigt

Topics: Adult Affluent Forget Indulge Kids Lets Really Society Tend Than Themselves Tougher

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I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

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All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

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Topics: Characters Emotions Entertained Excitement Full Inspired Often Read Stories Wanted Were

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Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

~Cynthia Voigt

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It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.

~Cynthia Voigt

Topics: Able Bread Consider Downstairs Grandchildren Great Home Rising Room Upstairs Write Writing

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My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.

~Cynthia Voigt

Topics: After Classes Come Day Dinner Every Everyone Family Favorite Four Go Hang Home Hours Morning Next Out Prepare School Season Teach Them Then Three Tucked Would Wrote

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I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

~Cynthia Voigt

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I used to know kids better because I was teaching in a classroom, but I still have a sense of comfort with them. I don't believe that kids have essentially changed.

~Cynthia Voigt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 25th, 1942

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