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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Applaud Cheer Children Encourage Fantasy Flights Grammar Help Imagination Own Parade Rain Say Spelling Stand Stand Up Stories Then True Up Use Write

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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Administrator Better Bunch Direct Doing Done Earlier Enjoy Experience Find First Had Helping Helping People Job Life Me Might More Most People Satisfying Somewhere Than Then Thinking Today Welfare Work

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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Better Come Endings Kids Real Sometimes Story Than Up

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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Charter City Club Elementary Elementary School Grew High High School Member New New York New York City Poems Poetry Published School Scrabble Scribble Student Up Were York

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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Act Big First Like Painter Sister Then Want Wanted Writer

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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Big Child Important Kids Learn Person Reading Stories Time Words

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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Adult Book Brooklyn Children David Experience First Husband Interest Led Lyrics Me Music Musical Neighborhood Produced Theater Writing Wrote

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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Been Drawing Had Kid Loved Never Painting Particularly Wanted Writer Wrote Years

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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Always Am Been Drew Found Had Happier Hard Hardest Interested Like More Much Myself Painted Process Write Writing I Am I Write

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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Am Because Contemporary Culture Fiction Hardest Me Popular Popular Culture Really Tv Watch I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 17th, 1947

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