I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time ‘Torak’ did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I’d better go and do it. Michelle Paver Read Quote
Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it’s very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen. Michelle Paver Read Quote
I definitely don’t write with any kind of ‘message’ or ‘lesson,’ probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that. Michelle Paver Read Quote
I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn’t realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn’t remember it. Michelle Paver Read Quote
If you get a sense that your writing isn’t quite working, change it. Or cut it out. Don’t just tell yourself it’ll do, because it won’t. Michelle Paver Read Quote
I’m quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely. Michelle Paver Read Quote
My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don’t really want children. Now I’m glad I don’t have them. Part of that is because I have my books. Michelle Paver Read Quote
My novel ‘Wolf Brother’ is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi. Michelle Paver Read Quote
