![]() ![]() Saying, ‘Don’t wish your life away, don’t wish your life away.’ But the story wasn’t based on anything except that there were a Thought, ‘OK, well how long is it to Christmas?’ I mean, you’re constantly saying that. Think, ‘Oh, how long is it to Thanksgiving?’ (in America - in England it was Bonfire Night). Every kid does that - you finish your summer holidays and "Even as a kid, I was aware that I lived from holiday to holiday. So, yeah, there’s something of Harvey in me. I also wanted to give Harvey some of my imaginative energy. Where I was brought up, and I wanted to reflect that in Harvey. Lot of reading, but even reading can’t take you away all the time, away from the grey reality of life in Liverpool in the ’50s, which is So there was a lot of downtime, time where you were just waiting. Now, but as a kid I didn’t have those diversions. "I think we, all of us, as children feel bored a lot of the time, waiting for adults to do whatever adults do. Shapes for the things that were running round my head." I think I’ve spent the years since being that 10 year old kid finding formats, finding "Harvey Swick is very much the 10 year old that I was: a very angry little kid who had very strange dark imaginings that he He's a 10-year old boy who thinks a lot like Clive did at the age of 10! ![]()
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