On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.