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"I read my books aloud before they were published."
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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!"
"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."
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
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"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."
"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."
"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
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