Life
Almond was born and raised in Felling and His second novel, A Kind of Heaven, appeared in 1987. He then wrote a series of stories which drew on his own childhood, and which would eventually be published as Counting Stars, published by Hodder in 2001.
From 2006-12 he was Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. In 2012 he became Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
He currently (2012) lives with his family, the sculptor/ceramicist Sara Jane Palmer, and their daughter Freya, in Northumberland, England, about 25 miles from Newcastle, "just beyond the Roman Wall, which for centuries marked the place where civilisation ended and the waste lands began."
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)
“I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.”
—Damon Runyon (1884–1946)
“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
—Jacques Attali (b. 1943)