Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.