Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.