Quotes by Philip Reeve - Page 1

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
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Enemy
One Thing
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An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
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Engineers
Historian
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But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.
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Alive
Together
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Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
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Heart
Way
World
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I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
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Best Way
Book
Six
Stories
Way
Best Experience Way
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But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.
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Girl
Boys
World
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I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight and that lasted well into my teens.
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Age
Eight
Teens
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I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
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Fascinated
Lord
Rings
Teens
Lasted
Lord Of The Rings
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he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America
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Animal
Cutting
Past
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I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.
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Engines
No Idea
Completed
Mortal
Publisher
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Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.
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Thinking
Towns
Voice
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Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
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Night
People
Philosophical
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It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.
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Dark
Sea
Spring
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You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.
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Life
Beautiful
Hero
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Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be misremembering.
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Cities
Doctors
Moving
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Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.
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Cities
Doctor Who
Sci Fi
Fairly
Doctor
Recall
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I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.
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Book
Stuff
Used
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I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.
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Despite
Engines
Fascinated
Retro
Victorian
Mortal
Vibe
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That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.
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Civilization
Simple
Thinking
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I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
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Surprise
Friends And Family
Illustrator
Nose
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As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977 the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.
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War
Children
Stars
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As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.
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Autumn
Publicity
Science Fiction
Science Always Me
Science Me Science Fiction
Wars
Eager
Reached
Star Wars
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That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.
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Patterns
Real
Stories
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Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.
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Imagination
Add
Book
Children
Details
Elements
Tiny
Clues
Illustrator
Images
Picture Book
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Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'
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Names
Potters
Religious
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I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'
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Arthur
Opera
Sequels
Victorian
Currently
David
Legend
Gritty
Illustrator
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My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
Philip Reeve / Author
Clothes
Color
Fiction
Nine
Plus
Reading
Science Fiction
Ten
Victorian
War Work Science
War Time Work
Edwardian
Encounter
Liking
Tends
Worlds
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