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A falcon is the perfect hunter.
Jean Craighead George / Writer
Falcon
Perfect
Hunter
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Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.
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Chickens
Taste
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I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.
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Book
Want
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Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
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Running
Book
Reader
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When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
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I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.
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Illustrating
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I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.
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Appreciate
Wanted
World
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Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.
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Tree
World Day Every Day
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There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.
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Common
Knows
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That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.
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Kids
Book
Mean
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I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Diplomats
Franklin
Senators
President United States United
Roosevelt
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I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.
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Work Out
Empower
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Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
Jean Craighead George / Writer
Best Way
Interesting Things
Best Good Way
Best Good Doing
Good Writer
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I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
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Wilderness
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By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.
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Vulture
By The Time
Surprised
Turkey
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Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.
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Pet
Bird
Tools
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There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.
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Love People Always
Unfortunately
Outdoors
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I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.
Jean Craighead George / Writer
Conveyed
Independently
Julie
Wolves
Young People
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My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.
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Dishes
Process
Research
Thinking
Washing
Writing Process
Experiences
Mix
Personal
Raising
While
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To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
Jean Craighead George / Writer
People
Problem
Writing
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Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'
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Advance
Contract
Julie
Offered
Wolves
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Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.
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Cat
Firsts
Self
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Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.
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Accepted
Species
Oh
Eyes
Pulled
Spoken
Wolf
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Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.
Jean Craighead George / Writer
Cat
Loving Relationships
Self
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Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.
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Love Nature Beautiful
Hopes
Wonders
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I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.
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Done
Loss
Writing
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I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.
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Air
Medicine
Wind
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I am actually looking most forward to seeing the country again. It's a wonderful town and the wilderness around there is beautiful. The falls there were an inspiration in my book My Side of the Mountain
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Beautiful
Book
Country
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I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.
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Perfect Life
Life Home World
Camp
Wild
Scientists
Studies
Wild Animals
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Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.
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Articles
Autumn
Migrate
Sun
Wild
Depart
Urge
Wild Animals
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I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'
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Delight
Natural
Natural World
World Me Father
Aware
Became
World Father Me
Looked
Poem
Presented
Stick
Twig
Walked
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We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.
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Horse
Pigs
Smell
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The dog wags its tail only at living things. A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile, is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels, even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.
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Butterfly
Cat
Dog
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I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.
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Fire
Light
Night
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I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just dive in and go at it. I would encourage children to write about themselves and things that are happening to them. It is a lot easier and they know the subject better if they use something out of their everyday lives as an inspiration. Read stories, listen to stories, to develop an understanding of what stories are all about.
Jean Craighead George / Writer
Believe
Children
Inspiration
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