David Almond

“Well, well,” she murmurs as I back away. She makes a rectangle with her index fingers and thumbs and looks at my…

— David Almond

“I do think there is evil. But it is very rare. It is as rare as true goodness. And just as true…

— David Almond

“Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. We have to allow ourselves to see what there…

— David Almond

“A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.”

— David Almond

“She points at my chest. “And much more interestingly, what’s that?” “Blood,” I say. She gets her camera out.”

— David Almond

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

— David Almond

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be…

— David Almond

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your…

— David Almond

“I love afternoons like that, like when we talk about things like metempsychosis, when we learn so much, and explore so much,…

— David Almond

I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was…

— David Almond

“more 27 and 53,'i said. 'Food of the gods,' he said”

— David Almond

“I have hair that drifts like seaweed when I swim. I have eyes that shine like rock pools. My ears are like…

— David Almond

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

— David Almond

“We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her Joy.”

— David Almond

“I said, 'Do you know what shoulder blades are for?' She giggled. 'Do you not even know that?' she said. 'Do you?'…

— David Almond

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

— David Almond

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

— David Almond

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail…

— David Almond

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and…

— David Almond

“Can love help a person to get better?’ I asked.”

— David Almond

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

— David Almond

“All of us can do what we like.” “No we can’t. You’re stupid if you think so.”

— David Almond

“Time’s Flying,” said Dad. He Smiled. He pointed to the air. “There it is, flying past! Catch it!” And he jumped, and…

— David Almond

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

— David Almond

“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of…

— David Almond