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Reading is my passion.
Nobody ever learns anything.
I actually do like traveling.
I hate to cook and love to eat.
I never want to be a role model.
I'm never impressed with myself!
The origin of each story is unique.
I am stuck at 10 years old. I think.
I don't think about being a celebrity.
I read whatever the publisher sends me.
So many miracles have not yet happened.
Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.
You are the ever-expanding universe to me
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.
I have been loved said Edward to the stars
I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
Everything when I was a kid was illustrated.
I think hope and magic are probably connected.
I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
How will the world change if we do not question it?
You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.
It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.
Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.
Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.
I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.
Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.
I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.
I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.
And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.
As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.
If there is anything that I think I might use later, I underline it.
My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.
Minnesota has been so good to me and so pleased that I love Minnesota.
'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.
Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.
Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.
This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.