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"Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special."
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"A child is child."
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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
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"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."
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"Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!"
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"When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness."
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"For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?"
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"I feel happy to terrify kids."
Kids
"I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block."
Personality
"Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special."
Childhood
"Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown."
Childhood
"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
Books
"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles."
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