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I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle sho...more

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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and ge...more

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I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wro...more

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Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

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We owe it to each other to tell stories.

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Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

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If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he re...more

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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

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I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely...more

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I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from...more

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Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise ...more

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My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book woul...more

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Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols ...more

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Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from...more