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• I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.…
• We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was…
• There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
• Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
• But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
• Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the…
• Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
• I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
• Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war…
• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to…
• I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like…

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