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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? ↗

— Carl Jung

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A good book written for children can be read by adults. ↗

— Norton Juster

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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters. ↗

— Norton Juster

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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. ↗

— Norton Juster

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I think really good books can be read by anybody. ↗

— Norton Juster

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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way. ↗

— Norton Juster

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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. ↗

— Norton Juster

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As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment. ↗

— Tom Felton

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I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. ↗

— Jay-Z

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