Michelle Paver
Michelle Paver
Michelle Paveris a British novelist and children's writer, known for the fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe. For the concluding book Ghost Huntershe won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 September 1960
hike itself nearest remote ride setting several solo
The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.
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I'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.
constantly surprised
I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.
changing decide good rubbish test tube
Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I'm not very good at maths.
agents leave work
In general, when I'm writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it's for.
experience field main online point rather simply sitting trips
Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.
life tour writer
There's this whole thing of being two people. You are the person you want to be - the writer - and then there's this weird other life of going on tour and talking about the writing. And that really is weird.
believe horses stories
I want to make the world real. I have to be able to believe that it could happen. I can't put Pegasus in my stories because horses can't fly. It's just a quirk in my brain.
boys men thinking
A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?
warning sometimes
Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.
pain heart rivers
Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.
people feelings ifs
Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.
choices cliffs said
There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.
light odd should
How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.