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Rebecca Stead

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 16, 1968

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

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I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.

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I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

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Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.

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Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!

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In so many ways, being a literary agent is an irresistible job to me. Not only does it involve all the things I love - being an advocate for others, problem solving, and going to meetings - yes, that's true, I love meetings, though everyone says it's bizarre! - but most importantly, I love working with people whose writing excites me.

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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.

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I loved reading all kinds of books, but I particularly loved books like 'Red Planet' by Robert Heinlein, which very few people read anymore but is a wonderful science fiction story.

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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.

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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.

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I asked myself what it was that I wanted from writing and where my connection with books began, and the answer to that question was definitely in childhood, because that's where my connection with reading began.

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I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

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My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

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I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

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

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

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Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

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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.

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

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I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.

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