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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

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All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

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Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

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The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

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Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

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If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

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I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

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A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

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If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

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We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 31st, 1932

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