I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.