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• ‟ Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

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• ‟ My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.

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• ‟ Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.

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• ‟ Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

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• ‟ Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

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• ‟ It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

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• ‟ Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

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• ‟ In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.

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