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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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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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A book comes and says, 'Write me.

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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

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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

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But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When l...more