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title: "2 M.T Anderson Quotes"
description: "Matthew Tobin Anderson is an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young adult novels. He won the National Book Award for..."
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# M.T Anderson

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Matthew Tobin Anderson is an American writer of children's books that range from picture books to young adult novels. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2006 for The Pox Party, the first of two "Octavian Nothing" books, which are historical novels set in Revolution-era B

##  Quotes by M.T Anderson

> [“I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of brain surgery...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-t-anderson-4/i-was-thinking-of-how-sometimes-trying-to-say-the-right-thing-to/)

M.T Anderson

[Brain surgery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brain-surgery/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bc/m-t-anderson-4-103739_brain-surgery_i-was-thinking-of-how-sometimes-trying-t_2916593.jpg)

> [“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-t-anderson-4/reading-once-begun-quickly-becomes-home-and-circle-and-court-and/)

M.T Anderson

[Exiled](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/exiled/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/m-t-anderson-4-103739_exiled_reading-once-begun-quickly-becomes-home_2982017.jpg)

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