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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
- Gail Carson Levine
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#Me
#Watch
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#Myself
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
- Gail Carson Levine
#Drawing
#Loved
#Never
#Painting
#Wanted
Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
- Gail Carson Levine
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#Children
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#Music
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
- Gail Carson Levine
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#New
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#Parents
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#Way
My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#Ideas
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#Thinking
Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
- Gail Carson Levine
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#How
#Know
#Think
#Your
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
- Gail Carson Levine
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
- Gail Carson Levine
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#My Own
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
- Gail Carson Levine
#Children
#Imagination
#Rain
#Stand
#True
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