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Mal Peet Quotes

English - Author | October 5, 1947 - March 2, 2015

I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

Writing Book Year You I Can Loan

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

Good Football Writing Strong Magic

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

Football Chess Matters Pieces Move

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

Day People Writing Start Saying You

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Words Week Trying You Difficult

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

Movies Little Sit Film Make

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

Literature See Fiction Adult Between

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

Children Past Worry Connection Sense

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.

Saying Gun Easy You Go Fantasy

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

Decision Think Write Adult Genre Ya

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.

Time Words Me Reading Treasure Stop

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

Love Value Rich Language Know Want

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