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

In a way, the characters often do take over.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

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

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.

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.