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Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

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I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful and so irreverent and so smart and encouraging.

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Los Angeles, which is where I live, happens to be a great place for junk. People have a lot of it, and they sell it and trade it: At these big swap meets, many, many hundreds of dealers of junk will descend upon a football field on a Saturday and sell all their stuff.

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Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.

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You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.

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It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.

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I fell in love with London and one particular era in London.

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I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.

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I write the books to amuse myself.

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I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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