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

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.

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

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.

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.

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.

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