Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are ….
Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current..
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was ….
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the….
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like t….
No one has the right to live without being shocked..
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, a….
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You ….
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be ….
All good things pass away..
You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got..
A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the presen….
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility..
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs..
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would..
Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy..
There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick t….
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cag….
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd nev….
Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where yo….
When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language..