I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

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  I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

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  'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

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  If you enjoy reading something, read it.

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  I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girl

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  Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because

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  My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

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  When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' so

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