Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?