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

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

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

He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.