I want my name to mean me.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.