Thud in the Bookshop

"I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to." - David Walliams

Those Dirty Miners in the Bookshop

"Examine it closely and you will see the ragged edges of the type, its cracks and bumps and gaps, the letters that lie crookedly, or ride higher or lower than the others, the ink's variations in depth, consistency, and hue, the motes of dust and droplets of sweat, sealed within the warp and woof of the paper, the tiny insect bodies caught as the platen came down and now immortalized as unnecessary commas and full stops." - Thomas Wharton Salamander