Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery.

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

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.