- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
- Nov 07, 2020
I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing different things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy scaring people.
- Peculiar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at the modern world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.
- Globe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My generation has left the globe in a mess.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
- Everywhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe quite strongly in evil.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020