I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.
From Kathryn Lasky
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.
I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.
My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
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