Quotes by Lesley Howarth

About Lesley Howarth:

Lesley Howarth is a British author of children's and young-adult fiction. For the novel Maphead, published by Walker Books in 1994, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.
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Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better.

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Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

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Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

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Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.

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Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

Lesley Howarth

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

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The power to do was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?

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You're special, not strange. You should be glad.

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Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason ...

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It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?

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He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen

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Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

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Author Bio

  • NameLesley Howarth
  • DescriptionBritish children's writer
  • BornDecember 29, 1952
  • ProfessionWriter