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"Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads."
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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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"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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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."
Home
"I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things."
Hobbies
"I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig."
Pets
"I wish I had more time to visit schools."
Time
"Yes, I always imagined living in other places."
Living
"I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination."
Imagination
"I love to read aloud."
Love
"Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads."
Books
"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
"I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books."
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