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

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

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.

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

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.