Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgessis a British writer of children's fiction. He became famous in 1998 with the publication of Junk, about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. At least in Britain, Junk became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth25 April 1954
Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...
Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.
It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.
Love is a secret society, a community for two.
Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.