Top 51 Quotes by Mal Peet

About Mal Peet

These are some quotes by English author Mal Peet Author, who lived between 1947 and 2015.

I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Mal Peet

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

Mal Peet

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

Mal Peet

'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

Mal Peet

Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

Mal Peet

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

Mal Peet

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

Mal Peet

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

Mal Peet

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

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

Mal Peet

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