I Hope I Am Not Too Repetitive.

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

The Novels Take Longer To Write Than The Picture Book Texts, And They Do Take A Different Sort Of Concentration. However, A Very Short, Simple Story That Works Well Is Just As Exciting To Me As Any Longer And More Complex Book.

Every Writer Has To Find Their Own Way Into Writing.

I Think I Am Too Interested In My Own Ideas To Copy Anyone Else's, But I Find That Other People's Imagery, The Flow Of Language In The Outside World, Games With Words, And Ideas About Relationships Are All Most Important To Me.

I Know Things Are Unbearable But In Spite Of That We Have To Bear Them.