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You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his. — Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind. — Mal Peet

We should just bomb them back to the Stone Age. — Mal Peet

'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition. — Mal Peet

As much use as tits on a fish. — Mal Peet

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting. — Mal Peet

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead? — Mal Peet

Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy. — Mal Peet

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. — Mal Peet

It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close to the button. — Mal Peet

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book. — Mal Peet

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces. — Mal Peet

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff. — Mal Peet

The view from here was lovely, constant, and never the same. Somehow, it was always sympathetic to his mood. — Mal Peet

But I get ahead of myself, which is nearly as bad as getting Above Myself. — Mal Peet

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar. — Mal Peet

Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to. — Mal Peet

I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes. — Mal Peet

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. — Mal Peet

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film. — Mal Peet

The screen filled with a pure and simple blue in which a few black pixels floated. — Mal Peet

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre. — Mal Peet

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past. — Mal Peet

instead of being in history he was in love — Mal Peet

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. — Mal Peet

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. — Mal Peet

Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians! — Mal Peet

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. — Mal Peet

Thank God in an atheist. — Mal Peet

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer — Mal Peet

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there. — Mal Peet

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark. — Mal Peet

Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences. — Mal Peet

I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead. — Mal Peet

I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school. — Mal Peet

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. — Mal Peet

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all. — Mal Peet

Writing is a form of licensed madness. — Mal Peet

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. — Mal Peet

Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names. — Mal Peet

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories. — Mal Peet

Fluke me, Murdstone. — Mal Peet

'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought. — Mal Peet

He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever. — Mal Peet

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. — Mal Peet

If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.' — Mal Peet