Books That Kids Read Should Be About

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.

I Don't Consciously Try To Take My Readers On A Journey As I Don't Really Think About My Readers When I'm Writing. I Just Try To Write What I Feel Passionately About, To Tell A Story Down Onto The Page.

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.

I Could Believe Only In The Hell I Was Living In, A Hell On Earth, And It Was Man-made, Not God-made.

Admitting Failure Is Quite Cleansing, But Never - Pleasurable.