I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

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• Mal Peet:

  I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

• Mal Peet:

  I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and

• Mal Peet:

  When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I

• Mal Peet:

  I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

• Mal Peet:

  I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into acc

• Mal Peet:

  I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there

• Mal Peet:

  'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

• Mal Peet:

  I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

• Malachi Kirby:

  It's really cheesy, but basically, 'Roots' got me to find out my own roots.

• Malachi Kirby:

  Even around my family, I hardly spoke. I was very reserved.