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I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

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I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality.

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Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

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Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

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The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.

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I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

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I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

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If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

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I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

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All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: June 16th, 1958

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