Canadians Are Americans With No Disneyland.

It Changes You For Ever, But You Are Changing For Ever Anyway.

My Theory Is That I Decided To Be A Writer When I Was About Seven, But Of Course It Is Not As Simple As That. Like Most Writers, I Had To Work At Other Things To Earn A Living And Wrote Mainly In The Evenings, Often Very Late At Night, For Many Years.

I've Never Actually Been A Fighter Myself - Fighting Tires Me Out And I'm Not An Efficient Fighter Anyway - But I Have Certainly Seen Other People Have Great Complicated Goes At One Another.

It Is A Good Idea To Know Which Publishers Publish Which Stories. For Example, There Is No Sense In Sending A Picture Book Text To A Publisher Who Does Not Publish Picture Books.

I Had To Wait For A Long Time Before I Could Support Myself With Writing. However, Being A Writer Is What I Have Most Wanted To Be, From The Time I Was A Child.