Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

If you are good life is good.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.