Richard Adams
Richard Adams
Richard George Adamsis an English novelist who is known as the author of Watership Down, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterward he completed his studies and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author. He is now semi-retired...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 May 1920
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Our children's children will hear a good story.
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I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.
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How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.
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It was the most homes I had ever built. I was on the move, and built one every night.