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Tony Bradman Quotes

English - Writer | January 22, 1954 -

'All Quiet on the Western Front' is just sort of there isn't it? Every single trope of the First World War, and anti-war writing in general, is in there.

War Writing World Quiet First Just

I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.

Me Chair Judges Prize Teenage Asked

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.

Royalty Year Know Income Been Whose

Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

Children Crown British Publishing

Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson have both been writing for a long time. In 30 years, will writers of that quality have been able to serve the same sort of apprenticeship? Not unless they can make enough money now to live on.

Live Time Money Quality Writing Now

In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.

Time School Parents Sister Year Him

At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

School Me Museum Possible British

Mum told me stories about her time in the Women's Royal Navy, and about her dad, who had died before I was born - he'd been sent to Australia as a child, then joined the Australian Army in the First World War and fought at Gallipoli.

Women Time War Child Me World

I studied Wilfred Owen for my English A Level, and that led me to Sassoon and Blunden, Rosenberg and Thomas.

Me Level English Led Studied Thomas

My parents were of the generation that lived through the Second World War, but I grew up listening to my mother recounting her dad's tales about his terrible experiences during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later on the Western Front.

Mother War Parents Listening World

Sally Gardner must drive her publishers to distraction: no sooner have they worked out how to market one brilliant book than she delivers another that is just as brilliant but totally different.

Drive Book Brilliant She Distraction

I have to confess that I've never been a great fan of Christmas or, as it's known in our house, The Monster That Ate the Last Third of the Year. It's mostly the rampant consumerism I object to, but I'm also a little wary of the annual crop of new Christmas stories and sometimes wonder why anyone bothers.

Great Year House Wonder Sometimes

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