"Do you all have a living room floor……" — Patricia Reilly Giff
"Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book."
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17 Quotes by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head…
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the…
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it…
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing,…
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were…
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my…
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers…
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system…
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.…
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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