What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First World War wasn't fought for that reason. The Second World War wasn't fought for that reason. Your entire country and way of life could be overtaken.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.