Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.