Anything That Gets Children Reading Is Fine.

Like Most Writers, I Sit In A Room And Scribble A Story And You Don't Have A Connection With The People Who Take Your Story, Whether It Be To The Stage Or To The Screen.

One Of The Great Failings Of Our Education System Is That We Tend To Focus On Those Who Are Succeeding In Exams, And There Are Plenty Of Them. But What We Should Also Be Looking At, And A Lot More Urgently, Is Those Who Fail.

That's What This War Is All About, My Friend. It's About Which Of Us Is The Crazier.and Clearly You British Have An Advantage.you Were Crazy Beforehand.

I Spend Months, Sometimes Years, Doing What I Call Dreamtime, Weaving It Together Inside My Head. But When I Actually Feel That The Egg Of My Story Is Ready To Hatch, Then I Can Write It In Three Months. Then I Know The Landscape And The People Well And From The Inside, But I Don't Necessarily Know Where The Story Is Going To Take Us.

Often It's The Latest Novel That I've Written That Is My Favourite. I'd Been Dreaming It For So Long, Living And Breathing Its Story So That When It Finally Arrives As A Newly Published Book, Smelling Wonderful And Fresh Out Of The Box, There Is Nothing Like It.