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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

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You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

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Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: October 5th, 1943

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