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"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."
"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
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