Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.