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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

"I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball."
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"My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago."

"I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now."
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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."

"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."

"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."

"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."

"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."

"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."

"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
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