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Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!

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Daniel Pinkwater
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: November 15
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Daniel M. Pinkwater
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