Mal Peet
Author
1947-10-05
Quotes by Mal Peet
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Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.
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You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.
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I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of us do likewise. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar
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He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.
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I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of us do likewise. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar
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You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.
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He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.
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Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.
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Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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