22 Mal Peet Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mal Peet

English Author

Born: Oct 5, 1947

Died: Mar 2, 2015

About Adult Book Time Writing You

Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett

Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared. Mal Peet

Privacy Bench Books Intimate Both Fact Generally Shared Beyond Sitting Common Spaces Forms Public Things Widely

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre. Mal Peet

Great Favourite Genre Reader Historical Historical Fiction Fiction

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. Mal Peet

Teenage See Adult Between Any Fiction Literature Really Barrier

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past. Mal Peet

Past Sense Worry About Direct Direct Connection Having Any Children Connection

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

Man Old Hair Teeth Synonymous About Seems Read Idiocy Normally Celebrity Whenever Grind Old Man Start Grumpy Pull

I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go. Mal Peet

I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it. Mal Peet

Time Me Words First Reading About Read Sure First Time Island Understood Forget Going Stop Certainly Treasure

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark. Mal Peet

Time Dark Light Would Football Read Used Play Play Football

It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time. Mal Peet

Time Morning Writing Roof Black Stupid Pleasant Spend Way Mad Superstar Football Weird Come House Stupid Thing Female South Up Celebrity American American Football Room Pregnant Then Pop Your Thing Here Imagine

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it. Mal Peet

It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head. Mal Peet

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book. Mal Peet

Book One Book Only Variety Read Any Form Illiteracy Fundamentalism Necessary

I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead. Mal Peet

Wonderful Able Steal Emily Emily Dickinson Both Feel Dead She Because

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting. Mal Peet

Kids Entertain Push Beyond Also Accepting Conditioned Want Barriers

'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition. Mal Peet

Commitment Ambition Fathers About Also Ultimately Keeper Conservation

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