David Almond Quotes

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• Truth and dreams are always getting muddled,
• A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
• Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal…
• The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the…
• I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me…
• We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
• What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an…
• We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin…
• This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely,…
• Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on…
• The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53
• She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of…
• Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the…
• There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.
• Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.
• Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we…
• Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.
• Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance…
• I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.
• And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

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