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Cynthia Voigt Biography

Cynthia Voigt (born February 25, 1942) is an American writer of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming, was nominated for several international prizes and adapted as a 1996 film. Her novel Dicey's Song won the 1983 Newbery Medal.

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If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have a reason for doing what he's doing, and it's not anything I can imagine myself wanting to do, things get a little more difficult to write, and careless mistakes are made.

Careless, Difficult, Intuition, Mistake, Mistakes, Writing

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

Book, Everything, Ideas, Tends, Trouble, Writing

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Bed, Hiding, Stop, Under, Worry

. . . a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

Able, Good, Good Friend, Kind, Together

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Anymore, Feeling, Feelings, Know, Knows, Who I Am

The worst things weren't outside of you.

Self, Things, Worst, Worst Things

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

Adults, Affluent, Forget, Indulge, Kids

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

Life, Littles, Living, Respectable, What Is Life, Wild

But I'll tell you something else, too. Something I've learned, the hard way. I guess"—Gram laughed a little—"I'm the kind of person who has to learn things the hard way. You've got to hold on. Hold on to people. They can get away from you. It's not always going to be fun, but if you don't—hold on—then you lose them.

Fun, Laughed, Learn, Littles, People, Person

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

Character, Development, Necessary, Rebellion

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

Arrogant, College, Scholar, Thought

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Character, Characters, Emotion, Emotions, Excitement, Stories

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

Girl, Hand Holding, Hands, Let, Looked, Nothing

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

Chance, Chances, Lasts, Life, Say, Series

I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.

Being In Love, Discovering, People, Teaching, Wonderful

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

College, Massachusetts, New York, School, Thompson, Time

. . . When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle. "Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

Empty, Forests, Gran, Granda, Map, Maps