I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child. Christopher Fowler More Quotes by Christopher Fowler More Quotes From Christopher Fowler Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet Christopher Fowler wake-up dream beautiful It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas. Christopher Fowler dark rain past I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart. Christopher Fowler fabric hate fall Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity. Christopher Fowler clutter healthy curiosity [Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take. Christopher Fowler angel blessing christian The drawings are terribly good. Christopher Fowler drawing Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count. Christopher Fowler home fun adventure My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books. Christopher Fowler street friends reading home My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began. Christopher Fowler man christmas problem father I consider myself a kind of a nerd, because when we go to the coffee shop in the mornings, we sit there in a very neat row with our laptops. It's just like being at work, but with coffee and panini. And, of course, you don't get paid. Christopher Fowler myself you coffee work I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best. Christopher Fowler loved best always dark I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will. Christopher Fowler look you friends reading Too many new writers dress up old cliches. Christopher Fowler dress old new up Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure. Christopher Fowler training talent stars reality My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills. Christopher Fowler glass job brain father I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents. Christopher Fowler myself smoking men television There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone. Christopher Fowler better failure lost long By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university. Christopher Fowler me money time father I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency. Christopher Fowler job advertising house school As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could. Christopher Fowler child ready london family
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