Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

I want my name to mean me.

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

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

I find people confusing.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.