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"I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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"Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place."
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
"Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it."
"I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun."
"Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it."
"It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want."
"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
"I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales."
"After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months."
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