Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

Trenton Lee Stewart

• Mind
• Kind
• Ability
• Able
• Mysterious
• Enormous
• Puzzles
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• I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Ability