Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
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I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
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For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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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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Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
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