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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
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"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
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