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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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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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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"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."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."
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"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."
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"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."
Life
"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
Family
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
Truth
"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
Family
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
Love
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
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"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."
Abuse
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