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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."

"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."


"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."


"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"


"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."


"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."


"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."
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