Phrase by 'Geraldine McCaughrean'

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I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Happy , Imagination , Childhood , Leisure


I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  People , I Am , Down , Food


Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  You , Writing , Good , Someone


When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is very flattering but strange, as if the characters have come to life again without you knowing.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Life , You , People , Feeling


You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  You , Book , Will , Fun


Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Me , Job , Saying , Child


My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Children , Age , Brother , Sister


I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Work , Doing , Thought , Easy


You need to be able to climb into a narrative and zip it up under your chin. You need to be able to see through the eyes of the hero, smell what he's smelling, hear what he's hearing.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  You , Eyes , Hero , Climb


I wept my way through teaching practice.

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean - British Novelist
  Way , Through , Teaching , Practice


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