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• ‟ I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

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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.

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• ‟ I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

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• ‟ The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

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• ‟ I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

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• ‟ You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

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• ‟ In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.

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• ‟ I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

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