Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.Mark Haddon
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If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
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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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