You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.