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"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should."

"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"We encounter great souls by reading great books."

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."

"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."

"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."

"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."

"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
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