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New York PEN Club, March 1980
I knew that my destiny would be to read, to dream, well, perhaps to write, but that was not essential. And I always thought of paradise as a library, not as a garden. We also have been created by Edgar Allan Poe, that splendid dreamer, that sad dreamer, that tragic dreamer. ALASTAIR REID: You once said in London - and I was sitting beside you on the occasion in 1970 - that all great literature eventually became children's literature and you hoped in the long run your work would be read by children. Would you like to amplify that?