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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.
Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.
Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see ... And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are ... that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.
When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.
Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper ... talking about the things that matter to us.
I don't really read as much but i am reading a depressing book on the holocaust ...
You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper.
Right here at our doorstep, we'll have the most beautiful bridge in the world.
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
