I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.
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I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.
My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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