When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.