I always love writing about children.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

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!

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.