History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar. Mal Peet Read Quote
The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine’s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. Mal Peet Read Quote
Keeper’ is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition. Mal Peet Read Quote
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple – sensitively – with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer. Mal Peet Read Quote
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. Mal Peet Read Quote
Normally, I’m a grumpy old man – whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy. Mal Peet Read Quote
I’m working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write. Mal Peet Read Quote
