Q. What do children tell you about your books?
A. One thing the kids will sometimes say is, "Someone got killed, one of the good guys!" I say, "Well, it happens – because there is both life and death. At some point you are going to lose someone close to you, maybe your granddad or your grandma. But the lesson is this: If it's a loved one you've lost, you haven't lost them. He or she is still there in your memory."
Brian Jacques, in The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus, Candlewick Press, 2009
A. One thing the kids will sometimes say is, "Someone got killed, one of the good guys!" I say, "Well, it happens – because there is both life and death. At some point you are going to lose someone close to you, maybe your granddad or your grandma. But the lesson is this: If it's a loved one you've lost, you haven't lost them. He or she is still there in your memory."
Brian Jacques, in The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus, Candlewick Press, 2009
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