David Almond quotes

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it. (David Almond)
Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.
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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.
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Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.
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Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.
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My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
David Almond
Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
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I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.
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What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.
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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.
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And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do! (David Almond)
They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.
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Themes around education and learning run through my work.
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I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
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The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
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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.
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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 lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.
David Almond
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
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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 to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
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This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.
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We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust. (David Almond)
I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
David Almond