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"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
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"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
Creativity
"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
Creativity
"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
Thinking
"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."
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"On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up."
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"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
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"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
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"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
Imagination
"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
Imagination
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