The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.
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I can't remember a time in the last five years that I've gone to sleep and slept all the way through the night. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. If I could do this all over again and have this wonderful child, I would. She's a miracle from God.
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to read more
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.
He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he read more
He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he can drive in runs. We're happy to have him, put it that way.
I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement.
I felt like we got in a rhythm there in the second half. I think it was a definite improvement.
Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew read more
Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this read more
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.
He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call read more
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
