I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

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

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

I want my name to mean me.