a man who builds a house never really dies.
It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.
I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?
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.
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.