Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.