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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
- Better Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
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- Nov 07, 2020