What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
Children want to do what grownups do.
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.