Anything That Gets Children Reading Is Fine.

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 Fill Up The Well Of Stories In My Head - Without Ever Knowing I'm Doing It.

Live An Interesting Life. Meet People. Read A Lot And Widely, Learn From The Great Writers

Characters Are The Key To A Good Book. It Took Me Several Novels To Comprehend That.

That's What Sailing Is, A Dance, And Your Partner Is The Sea. And With The Sea You Never Take Liberties. You Ask Her, You Don't Tell Her. You Have To Remember Always That She's The Leader, Not You. You And Your Boat Are Dancing To Her Tune.