Sentence:  And since, as I suggested at the beginning of this essay, all people are alike in being somewhat odd, and since all writers are alike in being similarly <WSD>oddified</WSD> in their work, it may be that many children's writers will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar from mine. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cause to appear strange.