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I wept my way through teaching practice.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Wept
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What people don't understand, they laugh at.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Laughing
People
Understanding
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I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Hate
I Hate
Thinking
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You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.
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Suspect
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I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Happy Childhood
Leisure
Resort
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Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Beautiful
Clever
Strong
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If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Fall
Please Me
White
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I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Block
Excuse
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The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Eggs
Elephants
World
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I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
People
Powerful
Solitude
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Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Apologise
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The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Pastime
In The End
The One Thing
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It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Everyday
Everyday Life
Banal
Escape
Route
Secondary
Tackle
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Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Despair
People
Unhappy
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I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Lovely
Somewhere Else
Authors
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Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Low Self Esteem
Self Esteem
Timidity
Overcome
Central
In The End
Suppose
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You need to be able to climb into a narrative and zip it up under your chin. You need to be able to see through the eyes of the hero, smell what he's smelling, hear what he's hearing.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Hero
Narrative
Smell
Chin
Climb
Smelling
Zip
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He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.
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Needed
Real
Wanted
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There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.
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Clever
Labyrinth
Roaming Around
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The chief thing is to make children feel good about themselves. They want to step into the shoes of a hero who is bigger and stronger, to face tremendous dangers and come home safely for tea.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Feel Good
Hero
Stronger
Chief
Tremendous
Safely
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I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Guilty
Penetrate
Enjoying
Masquerading
Pursuing
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When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Flattering
Sequels
Life Your People
Life People Your
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I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.
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Chewing
Print
Ages
Food I Am People
Hugely
Slow
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I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.
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Short Story
Variety
Rise
Month
Picture Book
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'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.
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Drunk
Providing
Respectful
Sequel
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I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Ambition
Burning
Peter
Life Time Me
All My Life
Life Time Passion
Pan
Peter Pan
Sequel
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My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.
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Mum
Twice
Myself Me Find
Boil
Repeat
Similar
Themes
Valid
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I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Academic
Clever
Me Dead Never
Assumed
Author
Dreamt
Occur
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Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Dictionary
Mum
Always Me Look
Author
Unfortunately
Look Father Me
Passed
Pleased
Published
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Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Fairy
Historical Fiction
Incapable
Somewhere Else
Tales
Done Me Everything
Expresses
Fairy Tales
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My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Anxious
Superiority
Adored
Double
Illustrated
Safer
Shared
Typed
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[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.
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Broken
Hook
Listening
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It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.
Geraldine Mccaughrean / Novelist
Arrows
Love You
Thinking
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