Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap. 
The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer 
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there. 
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark. 
Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences. 
I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead. 
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school. 
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre. 
Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all. 
Thank God in an atheist. 
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. 
Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names. 
I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. 
Fluke me, Murdstone. 
'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought. 
He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever. 
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. 
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.' 
Writing is a form of licensed madness. 
Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to. 
In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts. 
I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film. 
The screen filled with a pure and simple blue in which a few black pixels floated. 
I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes. 
I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past. 
instead of being in history he was in love 
I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write. 
Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase 'depths of despair'. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience. 
Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians! 
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre. 