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He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.**Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkey...more

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You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

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The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about...more

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Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in ...more

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I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be un...more

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Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them...more

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You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are y...more

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You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard that we can keep you sa...more

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Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

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Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't.

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Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

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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,...more

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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.

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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten...more