I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
Margaret Haddix
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
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Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
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The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8: 30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9: 30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
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It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
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I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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