CSPAN2 Book TV February 21, 2011
interviewers as he was many, many times, how do you create these things? he said, i stay at my desk eight hours a day, every day. whether it's coming or it's not coming. because i know that as long as i patiently stay with it, it'll come. he says, it's like a well. you don't know when you are going to hit the water. but once you hit it, it gushes. and doesn't stop. well theodore geisel stopped surviving, september 24th, 1991, he acknowledged that he was about to die. when he turned to his stepdaughter, lee grey, and gave to her the transitional object, the dog that had been with him ...
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