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John Boyne
John Boyne
Irish Novelist
Born: Apr 30, 1971
About Book Children People War Years
Related authors: Elizabeth Bowen Frank Delaney George A. Moore James Joyce John Banville Laurence Sterne Maeve Binchy Robert Graves
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers. John Boyne
Down Talk Readers Authors Children Younger
Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. John Boyne
You People Will Long Go Away Past Think Enough Unless Boring Something Never Most Go Very Which Lived Away
It's a wonderful thing to write for children. John Boyne
Wonderful Write Wonderful Thing Children Thing
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. John Boyne
Age Writing Remember Sense Innocence About Like Still Wonder Being Eight Children
War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept. John Boyne
Today War Visible Television See More Concept Thing
What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously. John Boyne
Difficult Too Define Classic Entirely Term Employed Course Makes Subjective Far
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic. John Boyne
Hope Time Myself Memory Book Passion Become Every Think Lasting Second-Rate Hundreds Find See Classic Seem Only Could Merely Disappointed Feel Look Occasionally Read Does Which Again Titles Much Across Appear Novel Mediocre
Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories. John Boyne
Christmas Me Every Teenage Teenage Years Carol Ghost Ghost Stories Charles Charles Dickens Enthusiast Throughout Never Excite Failed Well Read Always Years Dickens December Being Stories Loved Story

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