When I’m working, I always read stuff that’s as far away from what I’m working on as possible, so I’ll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson. Mal Peet Read Quote
Bootworks’ Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two – as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other’s lap. Mal Peet Read Quote
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. Mal Peet Read Quote
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children’s writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. Mal Peet Read Quote
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do. Mal Peet Read Quote
I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text. Mal Peet Read Quote
Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, ‘readaloudability’ is still a criterion I try to adhere to. Mal Peet Read Quote
I’m not sure that when I read ‘Treasure Island’ for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn’t stop me reading it, and I certainly didn’t forget it. Mal Peet Read Quote
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. Mal Peet Read Quote
