I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.