American - Writer | January 16, 1968 -
I personally find the ideas that girls need to cover their shoulders in school a little bit strange... when we're telling girls, you know, 'You have to cover your shoulders because otherwise you're a distraction to other people in your class,' probably something is wrong.
Rebecca Stead
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I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.
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Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
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I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.
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Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.
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I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!
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I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.
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I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.
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I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.
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I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know.
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During the week,I'm really focused on writing and output. Sunday is a day when I really try not to write at all.
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A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
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