48 Quotes by Matt de la Pena

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    Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

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    A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.

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    I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

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