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That the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to.

But sleep was busy elsewhere

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

Fate...may...be...thwarted.

Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

I'd never before been infatuated with someone living, someone real.

I want to be with you forever and beyond...

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

Voices and faces aren't manifestations
of good or bad.

I never met a word I didn't love

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I wished she'd never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Queer Ducks flock together.

If I couldn't sleep, I could read.

Rapid movement was a relief in the midst of so much feeling.

I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Crying is part of the adventure

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

I love you now ... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.

... He was only a person on the outside and... his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain.

Curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love.

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.

I shan't marry a prince!

Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.

Kisses were better than potions.

AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell."
"It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted.

Pink, gold, blue.
I choose you!

I decided to draw her doing something, because she always was.

I refused to love it. He was going to sell it too

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Byjadh heemyeh odh ubaech achoedzaY Foolishness may have golden offspring. I hope yours does.

Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

A library is infinity under a roof.

I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.

He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic ... muscular.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

Darling, everyone is beautiful in her own
way, and I am a fairy.

My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I'm in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.

Love shouldn't be dictated