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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.