A Man Who Builds A House Never

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

I Was Able To Work Out All Sorts Of Attitudes To Style And Event And Character, All Of Which Affected The Way I Came To Think About My Own Writing. I Believe That All Good Writers Are Original.

Writing For Young Children I Find I Often Use Particular Jokes With Words And Exaggerated, Funny Events, But Some Of These Haunt The More Complex Stories For Older Children Too.

If A Job's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Twice.

I Think I Am Too Interested In My Own Ideas To Copy Anyone Else's, But I Find That Other People's Imagery, The Flow Of Language In The Outside World, Games With Words, And Ideas About Relationships Are All Most Important To Me.