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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

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When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.

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Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

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Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

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I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.

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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

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Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.

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I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

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A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: October 5th, 1943

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