I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
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I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.Margaret Haddix
Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
Margaret Haddix
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
Margaret Haddix
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
Margaret Haddix
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
Margaret Haddix
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.
Margaret Haddix
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Joe Shuster
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
Marilyn vos Savant
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthur