Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.