Read A Lot - Poems, Prose, Stories,

Live An Interesting Life. Meet People. Read A Lot And Widely, Learn From The Great Writers

That's What Sailing Is, A Dance, And Your Partner Is The Sea. And With The Sea You Never Take Liberties. You Ask Her, You Don't Tell Her. You Have To Remember Always That She's The Leader, Not You. You And Your Boat Are Dancing To Her Tune.

Any Story You Write About War, Or Film You Make About War, Is Bound To Be Political Whether You Like It Or Not.

Books That Kids Read Should Be About What Is Going On In The World.

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.