I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

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.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

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.