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It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

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Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to wr...more

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The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, wheth...more

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We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully an...more

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I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religiousorder. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr....more

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Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

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A book comes and says, 'Write me.

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I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts tell us children mus...more

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I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on hi...more

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If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a gro...more

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The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

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Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The ten...more

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The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel to...more