"If you tell stories about a really cool kid that you can relate to, and then you hear about kids being mean to that kid, then you feel what it is like to walk in his shoes. And you think, that is not right. I think the best way to write is to want to build empathy for your characters. You want the readers to feel the things they are feeling."
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On thinking about kids who are different in “Author R.J. Palacio talks to LI kids” in Newsday (2018 Aug 8)
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