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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

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

"I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read."

"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."

"Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."

"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."

"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."

"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."

"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."

"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
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