"Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!"

-- Daniel Pinkwater

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“It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.”
“I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.”
“Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude, it has the ability to reach out and touch in a humane and warmly illuminating way the solitude, even the loneliness, of others. That is why, to me, poetry is one of the most vital treasures that humanity possesses; it is a bridge between separated souls.”
“Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.”

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“I think Diary of a Wimpy kidis sooooo good!!!!!!!”
“I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.”
“Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.”
“God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.”

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