Author: Geraldine McCaughrean

Quotes

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

- Geraldine McCaughrean

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

- Geraldine McCaughrean

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

- Geraldine McCaughrean

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.

- Geraldine McCaughrean

Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.

Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.

- Geraldine McCaughrean

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