Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

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

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

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.

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

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

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.