95 Quotes by Michelle Paver

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point.

I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.

I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.

If you get a sense that your writing isn't quite working, change it. Or cut it out. Don't just tell yourself it'll do, because it won't.

Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes.

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.