"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

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"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."

Writing

"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."

Reading

"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."

Fiction

"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."

Family

"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."

Mind

"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."

Church

"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

"Many children's writers don't have children of their own."

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"I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier."

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"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."

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