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" I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. "

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" The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. "

" I don't think I am evangelical in my work. "

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