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There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Also Another Art Dark Dear Empty Finished Full Head How Ideas Insomnia Just Know Lie Long Middle Months Myself Never Night Nights Oh Stories Suffered Telling Time Twitch Wake Whole Word Write Yawn Yes

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Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Above Big Blinds Canvas Daylight Despite Distract Drawn Fact Falling Filtered Firmly Five Hills Light Looks Me Northern Nothing Onto Open Out Outside Perfect Picture Sky Spaces Studio Table Through Two View Visible White Wide Windows Work

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Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Child Company Conversations Exist Form Growing Growing Up Imaginary Lonely Madness Me Only Only Child Paid People Prepared Solitude Spent Stuff Up Who Writer Writing Years You

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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Boring Casts Characters Dull Just Show Thing Up Very Watch Whole Work Writer Writing

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I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Everything Know Love Mess Shed Space Where I Love

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I'm ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn't have written any of them if I hadn't been lucky enough to have this huge family.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Any Been Books Children Enough Family Huge Lucky More Proud Ridiculously Suspect Than Them Written

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I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Attitude Book Call Changed Golden Hero Made Me She Villain Where White Wolf Write

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I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Always Being Books Even Just Paid Picture Write

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For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Adolescence Become Between Brothers Childhood Distorted Expected Filling Find Friends Holding Hours Long Long Hours Me Might Mirror Out Rather Reflection Sisters Stories Than True Up Were Which Who

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I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

~Debi Gliori

Topics: Enough Gap Look Loved Market Never Should Stories Tell Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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