Every Writer Has To Find Their Own

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.

When You Are Reading, Someone Has Done A Lot Of Work On Your Behalf, Someone Has Had Ideas And Has Then Written And Corrected And Improved Them So That They Can Be Shared.

At The Same Time, I Think Books Create A Sort Of Network In The Reader's Mind, With One Book Reinforcing Another. Some Books Form Relationships. Other Books Stand In Opposition. No Two Writers Or Readers Have The Same Pattern Of Interaction.

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.

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.