Thanet at War in the Bookshop

"Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active reader and a creative reader is a rereader." ~Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature. 

How to Hold A Crocodile in the Bookshop

"Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20." - Eric Carle