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Rebecca Stead Biography

Rebecca Stead (born January 16, 1968) is an American writer of fiction for children and teens. She won the American Newbery Medal in 2010, the oldest award in children's literature, for her second novel When You Reach Me.

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Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Loud, Love, Needs, Simple

I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.

Ideas, Joy, Life, Strange, Weirdness

Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.

Book, Nice, People, Tights, Tried

Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

Big, Dad, Life, Look, Mom, Running

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Running, Runs, School, Secretary

Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.

Book, Books, People, Stars

The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.

Book, Deliberately, Hurt, Place, Stranger, Thinking

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Boredom, Control, Happens, Mind, People

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

Book, Change, Take, Think, Thinking

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Afraid, Cases, Life, Like, Steps

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Facts, Pretty, Remember, Tried, Trying, Work

I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.

Ding, Kids, Simple, Sort, Think, Thinking

Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.

Down, Like, Men, Police, Running, Tried

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

Rewriting, Stories, Together, Writing

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

Mean, Meaner, Moments, Sometimes, Stop

I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.

Fall, Give, Map, Movie, Winter, Writing

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

Against, Amazing, Black, Different, Maybe, Nice

I remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's eyes, and thought: how does the world see me? So that was one of the things I was really interested in, when I was writing Goodbye Stranger.

Eyes, Goodbye, High, Interested, School, Writing

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

Book, Hoping, Readers, See, Trust

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

Feeling, Feelings, Friend, Important, Real

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