Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.