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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People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
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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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I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
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Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
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Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.
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The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.
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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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Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course.
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What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
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You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
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The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.
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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.