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"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"Books, the children of the brain."
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"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
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"Books are a finer world within the world."
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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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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 remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."
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"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
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"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
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"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
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"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
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"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
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"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
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"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
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"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
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