Perhaps Every Time Anyone Is Praised It

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.

Reading Is Very Creative - It's Not Just A Passive Thing. I Write A Story; It Goes Out Into The World; Somebody Reads It And, By Reading It, Completes It.

Perhaps Every Time Anyone Is Praised It Means That Someone Else Somewhere Is Going To Be Ignored

Fear Can Give You Urgent Wings.

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.