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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

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But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

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I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

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A good book written for children can be read by adults.

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I think really good books can be read by anybody.

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I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

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People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: June 2nd, 1929

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