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All Quotes by author - Patricia Reilly Giff
" All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school. "
Me
Family
Way
" Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us. "
Matter
Paper
Problems
" Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book. "
Book
Bedroom
You
" Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life. "
Everything
My Life
Writing
" I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers. "
Next
Know
Happen
" If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend. "
Things
Better
You
" I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write. "
Special
Know
You
" I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family. "
Loved
Writing
World
" I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them. "
Children
Writing
Thoughts
" Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing. "
Breathing
Writing
Family
" Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times. "
Heart
Over
Writing
" Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful? "
Saying
Me
Day
" The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special? "
Trouble
Kids
Because
" To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is. "
Important
Me
Children
" What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.' "
Me
Home
Book
" When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?' "
Attention
Me
Looking
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