Berlie Doherty Quotes

#1. As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

Berlie Doherty

#2. I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.

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#3. I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.

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#4. I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.

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#5. I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!

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#6. The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.

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#7. Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.

Berlie Doherty