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"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."
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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
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"Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost."
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"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
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"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
Darkness
"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
Home
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
Family
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
Chance
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Books
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
Life
"I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride."
People
"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
Time
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
People
"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."
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