Mal Peet Quotes

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Mal Peet

Profession : Author

Birth : October 5, 1947

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

Mal Peet

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

Mal Peet

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.

Mal Peet

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

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I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

Mal Peet

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

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