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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

I love books.

I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.