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" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "

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" I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? "

" Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. "

" I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. "

" You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "

" Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. "

" The first story I finished was when I was six years old. "

" I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. "

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" I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. "

" In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it. "

" I feel 80% of my life is completely normal. "

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. "

" I'm pro Union. "

" I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. "

" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "

" I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. "

" I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. "

" Death is just life's next big adventure. "

" There's no formula. "

" The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. "

" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "

" However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. "

" I would always want printed books. "

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

" I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. "

" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "

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" It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God. "