"Don't tell yourself (and don't believe anyone who tells you) that you've got no imagination" - DAVID ALMOND
"Truth and dreams are always getting muddled" - MINA, Skellig, p. 52
"There was no way to write anything and make it into nothing" - MINA, My Name is Mina, p. 237
"Every word written, every sentence, every story, no matter how dark the story itself might seem, is an act of optimism and hope, a stay against the forces of destruction." - DAVID ALMOND, Hans Christian Andersen Acceptance Speech