I Believe That The Experience Of Childhood

I Didn't Think I Had Anything Particular To Say, But I Thought I Might Have Something To Say To Children.

Getting To Know Someone Else Involves Curiosity About Where They Have Come From, Who They Are.

But Who Knows Their Own Child? You Know Bits - Certain Predictable Reactions, A Handful Of Familiar Qualities. The Rest Is Impenetrable. And Quite Right Too. You Give Birth To Them. You Do Not Design Them.

I Can Walk About London And See A Society That Seems An Absolutely Revolutionary Change From The 1950s, That Seems Completely And Utterly Different, And Then I Can Pick Up On Something Where You Suddenly See That It's Not.

I Didn't Write Anything Until I Was Well Over 30.