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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"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."
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
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