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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."

"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."

"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."

"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
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