About David Almond: David Almond is a British author who has written several novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one to critical acclaim.
Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad. I turn my face towards it and I laugh. Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad. I laugh again. Some people think that she's already mad, I think.
I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.
Themes around education and learning run through my work.
It'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.
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.
The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, a...
The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul.
I love the night. Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep. It's dark and silent in the house, but if I listen close, I hear the beat beat beat of my heart. I hear the creak and crack of the house. I hear my mum b...
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.