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when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

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I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

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The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of ...more

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The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex ...more

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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.The reason for that is ...more

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When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material wor...more

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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult literary fict...more

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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good book...more

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I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and sill...more

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I...more

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It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right...more

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Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be l...more

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All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get...more

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When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material wor...more

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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I...more