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

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

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.

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.