Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.