All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.

If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.