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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."

"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

"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!"
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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."

"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."

"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."

"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
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