B is for bestseller.

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Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

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That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

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Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

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Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

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