Thanhha Lai Quotes

Thanhha Lai is a Vietnam-born American writer of children's literature. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

and a Newbery Honor for her debut novel, Inside Out & Back Again, published by HarperCollins. Wikipedia  

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Thanhha Lai Quotes

“Journalism is just very structured…One day I turned in a story and [an editor] said to me, ‘You can’t compare inanimate objects with animate objects,’ and I realized I had to leave.”

On why she left journalism in “How former Register reporter Thanhha Lai turned childhood rage into a National Book Award” https://www.orangecoast.com/features/ha/ in Orange Coast Magazine (2012 Feb 11)

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