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I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.
— Rebecca Stead
Anyway,' Sherm said quietly, 'people fake stuff all the time.
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Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!
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so mom got the postcard today
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As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
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And if you've got a voice, you might as well use it, right?
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I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.
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What's the burn scale?
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Why don't you and Patrick actually talk to each other?" Tab said. Em looked up. "Are you demented? And say what?
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I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind? -Sherm
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Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.
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Life was anything but fast, in your opinion. If it went any more slowly, time would probably start to run backward.
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Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
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Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
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I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.
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Nice tights, I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.
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But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
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You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.
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Bookbag, Pocketshoe.
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Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.
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We have lunch at ten-forty-five, Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.
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It soaked into me like water into sand, fast and heavy-making.
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It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.
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My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
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Common sense is just a name for the way we're used to thinking.
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Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. But this is not exactly news.
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Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.
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Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.
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The guy is looney,' Belle said thoughtfully, 'but also generally polite. Polite is always worth something.
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A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
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I knew it. I just knew it." We had been robbed after all.
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It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice.
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Blue Team! It's what's for breakfast!
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Pajamas are good for the soul.
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Thank you for showing me your planet.
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I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.
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My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.
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There was no black line separating Colorado from Utah. There was no black line between friendship and whatever might come next.
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It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.
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I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.
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'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.
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The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.'
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Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.
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It is, actually," Sherm said, looking her straight in the eyes, the way he had during the intruder drill. "Best thing ever.
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Love is when you like someone so much that you can't just call it "like," so you have to call it "love.
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During the week,I'm really focused on writing and output. Sunday is a day when I really try not to write at all.
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We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.
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I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?
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People act like riddles are hard, but real life is harder. In real life, there are always more than two doors -Sherm
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Love is when your heart wraps around something and won't let go.
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