Say something worth the words.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.