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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020