I Thought Bill Bryson's A Short History

..and Only Sticks And Stones Can Break My Bones.

... Why I Like Timetables, Because They Make Sure I Don't Get Lost In Time.

My Book Has A Very Simple Surface, But There Are Layers Of Irony And Paradox All The Way Through It.

And Then I Thought That I Had To Be Like Sherlock Holmes And I Had To Detach My Mind At Will To A Remarkable Degree So That I Did Not Notice How Much It Was Hurting Inside My Head.

When I Was Writing For Children, I Was Writing Genre Fiction. It Was Like Making A Good Chair. However Beautiful It Looked, It Needed Four Legs Of The Same Length, It Had To Be The Right Height And It Had To Be Comfortable.