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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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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."
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"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."
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"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."
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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."
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"If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit."
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"A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance."
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"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
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"If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good."
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"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."
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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
Books
"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."
Books
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Books
"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
Books
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
Fiction
"I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier."
Thought
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
People
"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."
Life
"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."
Church
"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."
Reading
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