We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own. - Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

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If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

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Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

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It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind. . . This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.

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There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.

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Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

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Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

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I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

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