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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.
- Block
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the other. I think men and women alike would benefit from men having a more fluid idea of what being a man is.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one year, I was reading Tove Jansson, and the next year, I was reading Stephen King.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere - to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won't ever come back to books.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020