Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

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.

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.