I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.
If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.
No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.
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