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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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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

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I write in my house, at my desk, where I have Christmas lights strung over it to try and convince me that I'm having a good time. I can't really write anywhere else.

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

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I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.

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I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

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So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot of things.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 25th, 1964

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