I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles. – Paul Fleischman
People don’t like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt. – Paul Fleischman
Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you’re going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course. – Paul Fleischman
I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don’t nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn’t that hard at all. – Paul Fleischman
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn’t work quite that way. – Paul Fleischman
I’m a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn’t spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter. – Paul Fleischman
What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It’s just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There’s no better place to be. – Paul Fleischman
