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Tom
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“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.”
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“Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”
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“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”
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“Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.”
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“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ”
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