I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

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.

It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.