I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.
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People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.
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Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.
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I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'
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My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.
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Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
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