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"I read my books aloud before they were published."
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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."
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"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
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