Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the … - Robert Cormier

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I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience. ' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

Robert Cormier

Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book. " That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.

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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

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It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

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I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.

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Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

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