Eoin Colfer's Confidence Is Ignorance

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Eoin Colfer quotes “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.” Eoin Colfer made 23 books,made those books fun and innovative with the habit of mind "Gathering data through all senses" ,and illuminated the world with those books.

Eoin Colfer was born May 14th 1965 ,in Maxford. He gained a degree while attending the Dublin University and qualified as a primary school teacher in order to reach his father's footsteps. In a timeline of four years he moved between East Africa, Asia , and Italy. In East Africa he wrote his first book "Benny and Omar",which he had
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He makes his books sound extremely realistic while most of them are fantasy all the way to the core . He uses the habit of mind , "Gathering data through all senses" to reach this goal.

Eoin Colfer was, and still is a great author.He gave this world some of the greatest children's books and is still writing them.He is currently making an Artemis Fowl movie! "Artemis Fowl" was one of the best book series he ever made, and now he is writing books in the series " Warp." Eoin quotes "I will keep writing until people stop reading or I run out of ideas." Let's all pray that neither of these will happen in a while.

Eoin Colfer is a great autor that made 23 books and is making a movie.He used the habit of mind "Gathering data through all senses "which is how he makes his books sound

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