Jenny Nimmo Quotes

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly.
When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling.
'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes - Uncle Paton Yewbeam