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John Boyne [1971-0] Irish

Rank: 106
Novelist

John Boyne is an Irish novelist. He is the author of nine novels for adults and five novels for younger readers. His novels are published in 48 languages.
Boyne was born in Dublin, where he still lives.

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I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.		101
It's a wonderful thing to write for children.		102
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.		103
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.		104
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.		105
Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.	Christmas	106
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.		107
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.		108
War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.		109
Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.		110
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.		111
I suppose books are my real passion in life.		112
I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.		113
What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.		114
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.		115

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