Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughreanis a British children's novelist. She has written more than 160 books and her work has been translated into 45 languages worldwide...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1951
beautiful strong clever
Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!
powerful people solitude
I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.
elephants eggs world
The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.
real needed wanted
He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.
broken listening hook
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.
clever roaming-around labyrinth
There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.
laughing people understanding
What people don't understand, they laugh at.
block excuse work
I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
found imagination time
I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
apologise good
Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.
suspect
You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read.
books gives next picture rise start variety
I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.
assumed author authors dreamt grew occur
I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.
ages chewing food hugely maybe people print slow
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.