Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

What a plague love is!

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.