"I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future."

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Source : "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

Philip Reeve

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“I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.”
“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”
“Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.”
“The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.”

Source : Howard Carter's Diary, November 7, 1922.
“I've got a couple of things over [ Wladimir Klitschko]: He wouldn't spar with me when I went to the camp and I beat him in a mental toughness competition in the sauna.”
“Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.”
“For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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