Paul Fleischman
Paul Fleischman
Paul Fleischmanis an American writer of children's books. For his contribution as a children's writer he was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2012. He and his father Sid Fleischman have both won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.
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Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.
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I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.
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I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
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A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
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Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
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Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.