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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.

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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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