John Christopher
John Christopher
Sam Youd, known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976...
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In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.
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He's been victimized. Everybody identifies with a victim.
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A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
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The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.
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With the cost of gas, that's going to be a big lick.
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We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
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His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.
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We're a chainsaw outfit. We go in and just cut and haul down to the roads.
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We work with as many companies as possible, so we know how their file format writes data to the drive.