David Almond Quotes
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I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
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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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It's 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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The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
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My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.