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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

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What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

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And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

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Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 28th, 1940

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