Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun.

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.

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

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.