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.
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.
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.
authors goes seems simply somewhere takes
I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.
enjoying pursuing secret writer
I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
although ambition burning carry life passion people remember time
I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel.