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"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
Books
"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career."
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"I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up."
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"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."
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"If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story."
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"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."
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"I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession."
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"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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"My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment."
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"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings."
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