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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

~Mal Peet

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Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

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Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

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It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

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Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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