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Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
After
Books
Children
Files
Know
Liked
Me
Medal
Meet
Mrs
Over
People
Places
Take
Them
Unusual
Where
Won
World
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Art
Happens
Head
Heart
Need
Seen
Something
Visceral
Writing
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Actually
Along
Characters
Decide
End
Going
How
I Write
Important
Incidents
Know
Some
Story
Things
Way
Where
Write
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
About
Also
Both
Creating
Education
Exposure
Feeling
Gives
Growing
Growing Up
Hand
Limited
Mean
Options
Other
Own
Place
Possibilities
Self-Consciousness
Sense
Small
Small Town
Tend
Things
Town
Two
Up
Which
You
Your
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Been
Books
Get
Happens
Ideas
Know
Me
People
Places
Read
Them
Things
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Adolescence
Be Kind
Before
Behavior
Believe
Down
Emotional
Experience
Future
I Believe
I Believe That
I Think
Important
Kind
Kindness
More
Observed
Order
Patterns
Recognize
Set
Think
Will
You
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I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Because
Good
I Think
Makes
Most
Outsiders
Question
Things
Think
Us
You
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Born
City
Except
Family
Graduated
Grew
Half
High
High School
I Was Born
Infant
Lived
Moved
New
New York
New York City
Ohio
Pennsylvania
School
Small
Small Towns
Still
Towns
Up
Year
York
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Anyone
Arts
Away
Came
Chemist
College
Did
Engineer
Family
First
First One
Go
Go Away
Guidance
High
High School
I Came
Knew
Living
Made
Mill
Never
School
Small
Small Town
Something
Teacher
Town
Where
Who
You
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Books
Eye
Had
Know
Like
Me
Meets
More
Never
Readers
Saturday
Than
Them
View
Would
Written
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The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
About
Acceptance
Asking
Be Different
Both
Contradictory
Different
Else
Essential
Everyone
Everyone Else
I Write
Kids
Problems
Remain
Same
Same Things
Things
Two
Want
Wanted
Write
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Admirer
Also
Began
Bring
Female
First
First Name
Great
Important
Know
Luck
Male
Manuscript
May
Me
Name
Out
Readers
Starting
Submit
Thought
Today
Use
Were
Whether
White
Would
Writing
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Became
Before
Carnegie
Chemist
Children
College
Girl
Graduate
Graduate School
Had
Laboratory
Pittsburgh
Private
School
Science
Started
Taught
Then
Three
University
Until
Waited
Wanted
Were
Worked
Writing
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BirthDate
10 February, 1930
DeathDate
19 April, 2013
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