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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

~A. A. Milne

Topics: Always Books Children Escape Gave Had Once Punch Them Up Vain Wanted Writing

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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Atlantic Books Commissioned Kind Life Margaret Me Publishers Queen Stead Victoria Write

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I don't write books inadvertently.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Books Inadvertently Write

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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Books Change Different Electrical Even Give Kind Later Life Shape Shock Takes World You

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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Afraid Anything Books Complete Daughters Feeling Generation Grew Idea Kitchen Minds Mother Motherhood Never Think Up Very Where Women

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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Actually After America Books Different Different Ways Editors Effort Full Keep Less Like Look Love Make Many Meeting People Please Readers Should Sort Them Think Ways Who I Think

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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Books Dangerous Destructive People Understand Very Who Why Work Write Writing

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Books Else Everybody Everybody Else Expect Interested More People Than

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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Books Child Life My Life Wartime Were

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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Being Book Books Children Destroys Including Life Literature Lived Many Number Often People Really Sadly Since Students Surprising Taught Tell Were Will You

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