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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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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."
"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!"
"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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"I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up."
"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."
"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."
"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."
"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings."
"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."
"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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