Tag: pencils
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August 8, 2019
I love pencils. They speak to me of possibility (of writing and working and making something), but pencils are also forgiving—I mean, there’s the eraser, right at the top, implying by its very existence that you won’t get it right the first time. On a recent visit to Parnassus Books in Nashville, I was delighted…
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December 17, 2015
Kids often ask me if I illustrate my own books. My answer is usually something along the lines of “how I wish I could. Alas, I can’t draw my way out of a paper bag.” And I can’t draw. But yet, I love to doodle. I decided a couple of weeks ago to treat myself…
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November 3, 2015
People ask me if I outline my stories. I do not. I write, as Elmore Leonard once said, “to find out what happens.” Yesterday I was sharpening some new pencils. The pencils (happily) have answers written on them (Largest mammal: blue whale; Primary colors: red, yellow, blue; I before E except after C) and I…