David Almond

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence. ”

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me. ”

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. ”

Themes around education and learning run through my work. ”

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. ”