Tag: writers
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June 8, 2017
I keep thinking about a young reader I met at the Sydney Writers Festival. In the signing line he said, “Which book was the hardest for you to write?” “The Tale of Despereaux,” I told him. “Why?” he said. “Because I struggled so much to make the pieces come together,” I said. “Oh,” he said.…
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March 24, 2016
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of getting out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of…
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March 8, 2016
I met writer Rebecca Stead a few years ago at the Texas Book Festival. We were on a panel together and quickly discovered that we loved a lot of the same books and authors. Recently, I was lucky enough to have an extended conversation with Rebecca via email. Here’s a link to the conversation: http://numberfivebus.com/…/14/season-2-episode-7-tba-tba/…