Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able …

- David Almond

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

- David Almond

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

- David Almond

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

- David Almond

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

- David Almond

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

- David Almond

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

- David Almond

We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our …

- David Almond

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

- David Almond