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"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."
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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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"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."
"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."
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
"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."
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