"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."

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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."

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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."

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"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."

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"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."

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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."

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"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."

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"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."

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"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."

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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."

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"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."

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