58 Quotes by Geraldine McCaughrean

Further and further afield he travelled. Taking ship, he sailed to a hot and passionate country where gypsy women dressed in scarlet, and their dark skin sweated as they danced tarantellas under a tambourine moon.

As far as the eye could see, black rocks broke through the waves and tore the surf to shreds of white.

The Miller glared round at us, then his ruined face collapsed into a grin that showed all his tombstone teeth.

We were so disconsolate that even the apple blossoms of Ashford looked like tearful, pink-faced angels lamenting over us sorry bunch of sinners.

In the evening of his life, January was suddenly plunged into an early night. He went stone blind.

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

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

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

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.