Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see …

- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part i…

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It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

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The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanic…

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I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the m…

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We all have found ourselves in awkward, embarrassing situations, often brought on by ourselves - thinking we are saying something clever, for example…

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Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

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Happiness is wanting what you have.

- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor