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"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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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!"
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"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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."
Life
"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
Books
"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career."
Books
"If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story."
Life
"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."
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"I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession."
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"My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment."
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"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings."
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"I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up."
Parenting
"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
Books
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