- Nov 07, 2020
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- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
- Nov 07, 2020
B is for bestseller.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
- Coaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
- Better Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020