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- Nov 07, 2020
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I've made a much better grandfather... I don't think I was ready to be a father to be honest.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that gets children reading is fine.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
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