I Don't Consciously Try To Take My

I Think People Are More In Contact Now With The Consequences Of War Than They've Been For A Very Long Time. And That's What Amazes Me When Sometimes Politicians Seem To Forget Their History. They Don't Look And Re-learn About What Has Happened Before. Maybe They Haven't Got The Memory, Maybe They're Already Too Young, But You Can See How We Become Puffed Up, And How We As A Nation Rise So Quickly If We're Not Careful.

As A Young Child My Attention Span Was, As I Remember It, Rather Short.

Wherever My Story Takes Me, However Dark And Difficult The Theme, There Is Always Some Hope And Redemption, Not Because Readers Like Happy Endings, But Because I Am An Optimist At Heart.

I Can Hate You More, But I'll Never Love You Less.

Perhaps It Is Partly That We Need To Love Books Ourselves As Parents, Grandparents And Teachers In Order To Pass On That Passion For Stories To Our Children. It's Not About Testing And Reading Schemes, But About Loving Stories And Passing On That Passion To Our Children.