"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."

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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."

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"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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Dean Koontz, American Author

Books, Open

"My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories."

Sarah Addison Allen, American Novelist

Books, Joy, Reading, Happiness

"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."

Bernard Pivot, French Journalist

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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."

Stephen King, American Author

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Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Books, Travel, Joy, Reading

"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."

Augusten Burroughs, American Writer

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"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

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"I never worked in an office in my life."

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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

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"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."

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"This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late."

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"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."

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"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."

"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories."

"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."

"Without story books is like a person with no soul."

"My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel."

"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."

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"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."

"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

"I never worked in an office in my life."

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."

"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."

"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."

"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."

"This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late."

"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."