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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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Personal Development
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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Personal Development
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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"My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too."
Family
"I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading."
Education
"I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay."
Writing
"I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play."
Music
"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift."
Family
"It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure."
Family
"I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write."
Work
"I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them."
Life
"Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life."
Life
"My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore."
Work
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