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I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had no idea how to begin this project - neither of us had ever collaborated with another writer - and I'm pretty sure that we began by giving our two friends a sock, just to see what they'd do with it. And it went from there.

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Nobody ever learns anything.

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Reading is my passion.

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I actually do like traveling.

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I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, yo…

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I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would…

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The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get brok…

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It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

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I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's par…

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