I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.Robert Cormier
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
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I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
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