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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."
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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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"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."
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Personal Development
"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
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"Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past."
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Personal Development
"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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Personal Development
"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
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"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
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"I was always influenced by language."
Language
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
Writing
"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."
Age
"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
Writing
"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
Poetry
"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."
Influence
"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
Time
"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
Past
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