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" My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops. "

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" Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. "

" And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. "

" Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. "

" The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. "

" When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from. "

" The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. "

" A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. "

" In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand. "

" When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. "

" I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. "

" I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. "

" I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. "

" Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. "

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" A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. "

" I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing. "

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" Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to. "