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Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel
Canadian Author
Born: Aug 31, 1967
Film Games Good Love Me Time
Related authors: Ann Voskamp Douglas Coupland Farley Mowat Justine Musk Malcolm Gladwell Merle Shain Michael Ondaatje Rob Pike
Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky. Kenneth Oppel
Good Me Sky Devil Earned Everyone Striking Flying Out Indian Outer Tempest About Seem Knew Idea Name Like She Edges Year-Round Infamous Fist North Did Storm Ordinary Bridge Even Her Good Idea
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction. Kenneth Oppel
Me Affliction Everything About Something Puritanical Terrible Makes Want Cursed Streak
One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them. Kenneth Oppel
Love Time Great Frail Airplane Could Never Safe Wrote Passenger Fallen Were Replaced Efficient Crash Short-Lived Which Them Flew Reasons Fast
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel. Kenneth Oppel
Food Me Treat Three Other Slept Books Bats Completing Eat About Struck Could Write Wrote Beds Than Wonderfully Clothing After Loved Again Wore Novel Humans
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time. Kenneth Oppel
Art Time Good Good Time Think Pleasure Tell Entertaining Some Give Good Story Writer Sort Readers Always Least Been Goal Chief Story Should Good Art
When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary. Kenneth Oppel
Awareness Bats Vocabulary Written Human Full Series
The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream. Kenneth Oppel
World Hunger Hunger Games Dream Paranoid Games

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