You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

I always love writing about children.