What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.