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

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From the beginning of the human race stories have been used—by priests, by bards, by medicine men—as magic instruments of healing, of teaching.

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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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Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

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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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Lying to him was as necessary as breathing or wrapping up against the cold — a defense against curiosity.

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

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Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way — with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken
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Born: September 4, 1924
Died: January 4, 2004 (aged 79)
Bio: Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an for her services to children's literature.
Known for:
  1. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962)
  2. Black Hearts in Battersea (1964)
  3. The Whispering Mountain (1968)
  4. Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966)
  5. The Stolen Lake (1981)

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