Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

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.

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

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?