There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.