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The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

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.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!