Animals Are Sentient, Intelligent, Perceptive, Funny And

There Is The Myth That Writing Books For Children Is Easier Than Writing Books For Grownups, Whereas We Know That Truly Great Books For Children Are Works Of Genius, Whether It's 'alice In Wonderland' Or The 'gruffalo' Or 'northern Lights.' When It's A Great Book, It's A Great Book, Whether It's For Children Or Not.

This One Isn’t Just Any Old Horse. There’s A Nobility In His Eye, A Regal Serenity About Him. Does He Not Personify All That Men Try To Be And Never Can Be? I Tell You, My Friend, There’s Divinity In A Horse, And Specially In A Horse Like This. God Got It Right The Day He Created Them. And To Find A Horse Like This In The Middle Of This Filthy Abomination Of A War, Is For Me Like Finding A Butterfly On A Dung Heap. We Don’t Belong In The Same Universe As A Creature Like This.

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.

My Albert Married His Maisie Brown As He Said He Would. But I Think She Never Took To Me, Nor I To Her For That Matter. Perhaps It Was A Feeling Of Mutual Jealousy.

He Never Reckoned Much To Schooling And That. He Said You Could Learn Most What Was Worth Knowing From Keeping Your Eyes And Ears Peeled. Best Way Of Learning, He Always Said, Was Doing.