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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

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole wo...more

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Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

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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...more

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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...more

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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 ...more

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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...more

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We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.