Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything

I want my name to mean me.

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own