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 More Quotes by Geraldine McCaughrean More Quotes From Geraldine McCaughrean Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! Geraldine McCaughrean strongcleverbeautiful 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 arrowslove-youthinking 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. Geraldine McCaughrean roaming-aroundlabyrinthclever I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking. Geraldine McCaughrean i-hatehatethinking 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 solitudepowerfulpeople 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 elephantseggsworld 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. Geraldine McCaughrean realneededwanted 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 despairunhappypeople [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. Geraldine McCaughrean hookbrokenlistening If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness Geraldine McCaughrean please-mewhitefall What people don't understand, they laugh at. Geraldine McCaughrean understandinglaughingpeople I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort. Geraldine McCaughrean leisurechildhoodimaginationhappy 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. Geraldine McCaughrean i-amchildfoodpeople 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 someonenevergoodyou 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 feelingyoulifepeople You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read. Geraldine McCaughrean willyoufunbook 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 sayingjobchildme 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 sisterbrotheragechildren I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work. Geraldine McCaughrean doingthoughteasywork 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 climbeyesyouhero
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