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"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
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"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."
"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."
"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."
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"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."
"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."
"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"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."
"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."
"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
"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."
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