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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The simple act of caring is heroic.
The simple act of caring is heroic.
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.
Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat.
Anything relatively close to that is going to be a huge threat.
Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.
Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible read more
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it
It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on read more
It's great to know you can beat a team you've never beaten before. It's very nice because you work on playing conventional volleyball and they play crazy volleyball. It frustrates the fool out of you. But we worked hard, persevering, passing and not giving up even though they dug us.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid read more
The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a read more
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
