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"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."
"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
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"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
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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."
"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."
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
"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."
"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."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"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."
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
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