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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it."
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"I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch."
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"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before."
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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."
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"I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all."
Writing

"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."
Imagination

"What interests me is what children go through while growing up."
Family

"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."
People

"I grew up before there were strict leash laws."
Law

"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."
Family

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

"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
Family

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