Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

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

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.