Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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There was a grumpy librarian in the library. I could tell that he was the librarian because he seemed to be made of books. I told him that we needed i...
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he wo...
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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
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People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and ...
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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i
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The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shel...
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We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the...
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. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finish...
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit,...
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No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.
