I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

a man who builds a house never really dies.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.