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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."
"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
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"You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand."
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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
"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."
"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
"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."
"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed."
"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."
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
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