76 Quotes by Mal Peet

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

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

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

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

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

History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

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