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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
- Climb
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to be able to climb into a narrative and zip it up under your chin. You need to be able to see through the eyes of the hero, smell what he's smelling, hear what he's hearing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wept my way through teaching practice.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief thing is to make children feel good about themselves. They want to step into the shoes of a hero who is bigger and stronger, to face tremendous dangers and come home safely for tea.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020