People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.Norton Juster
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
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But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults.
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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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