Mal Peet People Quotations

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

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

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.