Thursday, May 23, 2019

Quote of the day

"[Use] as few words as possible as well as possible."

The late Judith Kerr on her writing philosophy.

Few authors create one classic, let alone several - but Kerr wrote The Tiger Who Came To Tea and then the Mog series, primarily to entertain her own children. The daughter of Jewish members of the Berlin intelligentsia forced to flee Germany by the Nazis, her story is a fascinating one, and the semi-autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is very much on Stanley's reading list.

(Incidentally, I'd still maintain that there's something rather sinister about that tiger...)

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