- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics... No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020