You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

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

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

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.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.