How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.