
It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

I wept my way through teaching practice. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

I like people. I like watching them. It's just I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very poweful binoculars. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end! —
Geraldine McCaughrean

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

You sort of suspect if a book's fun to write, it will be fun to read. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

These things happen. It is not the end of the world. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

Naked children ran about playing leapfrog or football, or towing little toys about on string. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you, -Oates
The White Darkness —
Geraldine McCaughrean

Despite appearances, Sym, Love is not a four-letter word. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

What people don't understand, they laugh at. —
Geraldine McCaughrean

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work. —
Geraldine McCaughrean