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"And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it."
Literature
"My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10."
Family
"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."
Hobbies
"I love to read aloud."
Love
"Yes, I always imagined living in other places."
Living
"I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there."
Family
"I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog."
Animals
"I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children."
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"I will try to write books until I drop dead."
Books
"I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young."
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