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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul.

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.