Susan Campbell
Susan Campbell
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If women want to work and are more satisfied, the quality of their parenting is going to be better.
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I'm going to support this contract, I think it's a fairly good deal. You (teachers) work hard, we work hard. I hope moving this contract forward will put the morale back where it needs to be.
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The other thing that's always struck me is that the kids in very little day care had scores that were very low,
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By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.
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The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.
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Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
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When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
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'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like Ruta Sepetys who bravely tells the hard story of what happens to the innocent when world leaders and their minions choose hate and oppression. Beautiful and unforgettable.
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For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.
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For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it?
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Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.
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When the family arrived in Bangladesh, where her husband had been posted, Sharon was offered secretarial and administrative jobs far below her level of training. Faced with a future in which she would not be easily able to use her legal education, she became an Internet service consultant and not only found herself employable almost anywhere, but also doubled her income.