Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve
Philip Reeveis a British author and illustrator of children's books. He currently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Sam...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 February 1966
home imagine stay travel
I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.
age fascinated lasted
I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
age became came children family nose sure surprise writer
I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.
enemy one-thing
The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
stars children war
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.
simple thinking civilization
That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.
historian engineers
An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
spring dark sea
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.