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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"Next, in importance to books are their titles."
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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
Books
"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
Life
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
Time
"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
People
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Time
"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there."
Family
"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
Mind
"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
Reading
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
Censorship
"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
Story
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