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Mal Peet Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: October 5, 1947 - March 2, 2015

Topics

Money Book Write Years Being Keeper

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

Jennifer Saunders

Fight You Argument Flight Know Want

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

John Dyer

Home I Am Paradise Living My Own

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

John Lennon

You Need Tell Who Anybody

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

Ann Brashares

Busy Nice Way Very Household

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

Steve Forbert

You Difference See Between Gin Lot

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

Shuji Nakamura

Work Dream Big Electronics Like

I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not predictable.

Mickey Drexler

Someone Successful Hire Predictable

Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.

Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

Opportunities Will Difficulties Where

It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.

Dennis Banks

Change Care Problem Trying Who Like

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Friend Childhood Trees Summer Why

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

Christopher Lee

Dreams Determination Courage Man Old

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

Chris Milk

World Born Changes Always Everything