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“ Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their 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, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery. ”

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I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.

~ David Almond

David Almond Childhood Existence Growing Up Life

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

~ David Almond

David Almond Hope Imagination Night Sleep

I sit in my treeI sing like the birdsMy beak is my penMy songs are my poems.

~ David Almond

David Almond Poetry Writing

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

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David Almond Creativity Words Writing