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Rebecca Stead

American Writer

Born: Jan 16, 1968

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I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot! Rebecca Stead

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My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them. Rebecca Stead

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I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books. Rebecca Stead

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I personally find the ideas that girls need to cover their shoulders in school a little bit strange... when we're telling girls, you know, 'You have to cover your shoulders because otherwise you're a distraction to other people in your class,' probably something is wrong. Rebecca Stead

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I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know. Rebecca Stead

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There's this trouble with books for me because I'm terrible at thinking of titles. The truth is, even with the titles that I've landed on in the end, they always feel wrong. I think it's because of this whole problem of having to package your book in a certain way. Rebecca Stead

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From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways. Rebecca Stead

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I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect. Rebecca Stead

I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid. Rebecca Stead

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I grew up mostly an only child. My dad remarried when I was a teenager. And then I had two stepbrothers. And then my dad had a second child. So I have a brother from the time I was 15. But I really grew up feeling like an only child. Rebecca Stead

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I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head. Rebecca Stead

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I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home. Rebecca Stead

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I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense. Rebecca Stead

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I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to. Rebecca Stead

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