I didn’t wake up one day and think, ‘I’m not going to have children.’ My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen. Michelle Paver Read Quote
I sometimes wonder why I do so much research – I look at other successful writers, and I think it must just be so relaxing to write about flying horses or something, but I have to make it plausible. Michelle Paver Read Quote
I’ve climbed Stromboli when it’s erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a helmet to get to the top. When you’re there, and it’s dark, and you can see this eruption and feel it, it’s quite different to watching it on TV. Michelle Paver Read Quote
A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be. Michelle Paver Read Quote
I’m not the next J. K. Rowling. We’ve got one already. It’s flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they’ve got young boys as heroes, they’re very different. Michelle Paver Read Quote
Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I’m not very good at maths. Michelle Paver Read Quote
I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They’d be dead in a couple of minutes. It’s got to be real. It’s got to work. Michelle Paver Read Quote
