I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
From Norton Juster
A good book written for children can be read by adults.
I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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.
People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
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.
The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.
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