Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.