Edward Carey Professions : Playwright Born : 1970 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Edward Carey During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed. Edward Carey should relaxation conversation I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.' Edward Carey childhood age happy school I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things. Edward Carey your you mustache tea Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction. Edward Carey you joy adventure way Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized. Edward Carey think dark love children I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning. Edward Carey good me morning school An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.' Edward Carey someone look know you Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world. Edward Carey grow new writing world Similar Authors Alan Ayckbourn playwright Bonnie Greer playwright Annie Baker playwright August Wilson playwright August Strindberg playwright Athol Fugard playwright All Authors
