Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia MacLachlan
Patricia "Patty" MacLachlanis an American children's writer, who is best known for the 1986 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sarah, Plain and Tall which was later adapted as a TV movie starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth3 March 1938
CityCheyenne, WY
CountryUnited States of America
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Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
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Fact and fiction are different truths.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.