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"I will try to write books until I drop dead."
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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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"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 true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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"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."
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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
"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."
Thought
"Every German child learns to speak English in school."
Education
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