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All Quotes by author - Gail Carson Levine
" As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic. "
Logic
Loved
Adult
" Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV. "
I Am
TV
Watch
" 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. "
Stand Up
Children
Imagination
" Get to know your kids' minds and how they think. "
Know
Kids
Minds
" Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking. "
Nowhere
Ideas
Thinking
" 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. "
Like
Sister
Want
" If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. "
Reading
Important
Words
" 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. "
Myself
Writing
Always
" 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. "
Poetry
City
Student
" I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages. "
Character
Thought
Think
" 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. "
Way
Up
Today
" I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates. "
Mind
Fairy
Kid
" I make mistakes on a very grand scale. "
Very
Scale
Mistakes
" It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults. "
Presumptuous
Think
Feels
" I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.' "
Excited
Own
My Own
" 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. "
Never
Painting
Drawing
" Managing to tell a story is very gratifying. "
Tell
Very
Story
" 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. "
Work
Today
Me
" Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation. "
Occupation
Dead
Most
" My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward. "
Ideas
Respect
Treat
" 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. "
Me
Music
Experience
" Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story. "
Story
Real
Endings
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