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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it."
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"I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch."
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"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before."
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"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
Books
"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."
People
"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."
Books
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
Friendship
"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
Writer
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
Books
"I read my books aloud before they were published."
Books
"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."
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"Children want to do what grownups do."
Family
"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
Family
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