I Don't Want To Be Separate From

I Write Fiction. I Make Things Up, It's What I Do.

I Was Brought Up, As A Lot Of Kids Are, On 'aesop's Fables,' 'brothers Grimm,' 'la Fontaine,' All Those Sorts Of Things. Hans Christian Andersen Is A Hero Of Mine.

He Never Reckoned Much To Schooling And That. He Said You Could Learn Most What Was Worth Knowing From Keeping Your Eyes And Ears Peeled. Best Way Of Learning, He Always Said, Was Doing.

Our Great Problem, Is That Children Now Know Whatever They Want To Know - At The Press Of A Button They Can Discover All Horrors Of The Adult World. They Know Very Early On That The World Is Sometimes A Very Dark, Difficult And Complex Place, And The Literature They Read Must Reflect That. Otherwise We're Just Entertaining Them To Pass The Time.

When I Write I Try As Far As Possible To Forget I'm Writing It At All. I Tell It Down Onto The Page, As If I'm Telling It To One Person Only, My Best Friend.