I’d get up early, switch on the machine and spend all the morning writing. There were no disturbances and you could get a lovely meal in the evening. It was lovely because no one wrote to me. I went through a long, lovely period 30 years ago where I would go to a flat in Paris to do my writing. I have 95% of all I should ever want to know in my writing room. But I tend to collect them – wine books, food books, books for my Monsieur Pamplemousse series – and only read them once. I was brought up in a home where books were considered part of the furniture and I love reference books. And I am running out of space on my bookshelves – I have a lot of fat reference books everywhere and no space for anything new. When I really want something – a particular page or a reference book – I can’t find it, so it doesn’t work incredibly well. I have finished and unfinished stories all over the place. This is not a grumble, though, it is a fact of life. One of the problems about working from home is it is so easy to do, so you end up working a lot. I like typewriters you can type with real flourish. I use a laptop, which is usually buried under papers, and I have a typewriter, too. When he took me to the seaside as a child, he even kept his hat on while he was in the water. I’ve got ideas that made their way into books while on holiday, while shopping, while observing my grandson. Paddington has a lot of my father in him he was a very polite man and never left the house without a hat, so he could raise it when he met a lady. I think my mind has adapted to my work as a writer – I am constantly listening for little snatches of conversation. If I go for a short walk, I come back brimming with ideas. I am a city person and I get my inspiration from watching people. I am happy here, although on some days, there is rather a lot of traffic on the road and the river and it can be quite noisy.īut I like looking out of the window while I write, watching all the activity. There is a little Paddington bear watching over my desk. My writing room is a cosy, book-lined room, with a dark wooden desk and a window overlooking the garden. When I first came to London, I went on a canal boat ride in Little Venice and I remember going past the street where I live now, thinking: “This must be a nice place to live.” I never dreamed that I would one day live here. I have lived in the same house for the last 30 years and I have written in the same room ever since. I have been writing every day of my life, seven days a week, for almost 50 years. Michael Bond was interviewed in 2016 by the Guardian for their My Writing Day series. Michael Bond and the statue of Paddington Bear at Paddington Station. Paddington’s adventures have sold over 35 million books, have been published in nearly twenty countries, in over forty languages, and have inspired pop bands, race horses, plays, hot air balloons, a movie and television series. This was the start of Bond’s series of books recounting tales of a bear from “Darkest Peru”, whose Aunt Lucy sends him to the United Kingdom, carrying a jar of marmalade the Brown family found the bear at Paddington Station, and adopted him, naming the bear after the railway station. By 1967, Bond was able to give up his BBC job to work full-time as a writer. He was paid seven guineas, and thought he “wouldn’t mind being a writer”. In 1958, after producing a number of plays and short stories and while working as a BBC television cameraman (where he worked on Blue Peter for a time), his first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published. Bond began writing in 1945 whilst stationed with the army in Cairo and sold his first short story to the magazine London Opinion. Michael Bond, (born 13 January 1926) is an English author, best known for his Paddington Bear series of books.
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