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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"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!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."
Family
"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
Family
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
Books
"Children want to do what grownups do."
Family
"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."
People
"I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters."
Family
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
Friendship
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
Books
"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
Writer
"I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind."
Mind
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