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Helen Dunmore

"Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight."

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"Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight."

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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

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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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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

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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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"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
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"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."
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