The bestselling author and illustrator on his childhood and how he learnt to draw
"Reading The BFG by Roald Dahl first got me into books. I couldn't put it down. There was a dark mischievousness that completely enraptured me, and a moreishness that meant for the first time I was reading a book when I didn't have to. I was quite depressed when I finished the book, as I didn't want the adventure to end. I was relieved to find out that Dahl had written other books, which I pored over one by one, and by the time I was done with him I was an avid reader for life.
I first started drawing pretty badly. I wasn't even one of the top five in my class. But even so, I still enjoyed it and kept at it, eventually getting better with practice. I made a real breakthrough when I realised I had more fun when I didn't try to make my drawings look 'proper' or the way someone else's looked, but just let it come out of the pen."
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