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I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

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Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

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Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

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The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

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A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

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Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

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As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

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