David Almond's Quotes

Born: 1951-05-15
Profession: Author
Nation: British
Biography of David Almond
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
Tags: Audience, WritingI learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
Tags: Learned, Reading, SheMy work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
Tags: Between, Boundary, WorkIt's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
Tags: Children, Economic, Good