..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

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

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...