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All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Characters
Emotions
Entertained
Excitement
Full
Inspired
Often
Read
Stories
Wanted
Were
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By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Advertising
Advertising Agency
After
Agency
By The Time
City
College
Graduating
High
High School
Knew
Massachusetts
Moved
New
New York
New York City
School
Smith
Started
Thompson
Time
Wanted
Worked
Writer
York
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I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Anything
Book
Except
Grade
Mostly
Myself
Poetry
Reports
Seventh
Then
Until
Write
Wrote
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I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Books
Everything
Finish
Ideas
Kind
Out
Person
She
Sheer
Starting
Starts
Stubbornness
Tends
Trouble
Who
Write
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I love teaching; I love little kids.
~ Cynthia Voigt
I Love
Kids
Little
Little Kids
Love
Teaching
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I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Because
Better
Career
Day
Even
Fill
Get
Hours
I Think
Little
Maybe
Much
Otherwise
Part-Time
Sentences
Stale
Think
Work
Would
Would-Be
Writing
Wrote
You
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I used to know kids better because I was teaching in a classroom, but I still have a sense of comfort with them. I don't believe that kids have essentially changed.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Because
Believe
Better
Changed
Classroom
Comfort
Essentially
Kids
Know
Sense
Still
Teaching
Them
Used
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Book
Eighteen
First
Idea
Lost
Manuscript
No Idea
Remember
Where
Wrote
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I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
~ Cynthia Voigt
About
Arrogant
College
Scholar
Thought
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I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Big
Big Fan
Clearly
Come
Fan
Here
I Can
Liable
Make
Mistakes
More
Out
Outline
Pages
See
Than
Then
Theory
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I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
~ Cynthia Voigt
About
Compulsive
Could
I Wish
Regular
Routine
Something
Wish
Writer
Writing
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It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Able
Bread
Consider
Downstairs
Grandchildren
Great
Home
Rising
Room
Upstairs
Write
Writing
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Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Adult
Affluent
Forget
Indulge
Kids
Lets
Really
Society
Tend
Than
Themselves
Tougher
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My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.
~ Cynthia Voigt
After
Classes
Come
Day
Dinner
Every
Everyone
Family
Favorite
Four
Go
Hang
Home
Hours
Morning
Next
Out
Prepare
School
Season
Teach
Them
Then
Three
Tucked
Would
Wrote
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My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.
~ Cynthia Voigt
About
About A Year
Begins
Characters
Down
Fit
How
I Write
Ideas
List
Make
Often
Process
Question
See
Sit
Stew
Them
Then
Try
Write
Writing
Writing Process
Year
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One day at my grandmother's house, I discovered 'The Secret Garden' and read it. This was the first book I found entirely for myself, and I cherished it.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Book
Cherished
Day
Discovered
Entirely
First
Found
Garden
Grandmother
House
Myself
One Day
Read
Secret
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Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Activity
Anything
Anything Else
Beyond
Choice
Could
Days
Distressing
Else
Escape
Grasp
Hobby
Knew
Lying
Me
Only
Other
Pleasure
Pride
Prime
Reading
Realities
Source
Sport
Well
Were
Whatever
Words
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To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Adult
Available
Began
Book
Books
Checked
Get
Had
Home
Ideas
Interesting
Juvenile
Kids
Library
Looked
Made
Many
Novels
Older
Once
Out
Real
Realized
See
Shape
Students
Then
Trips
Were
Young
Young Adult
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