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Anyone Interested In The World Generally Can't Help Being Interested In Young Adult Culture - In The Music, The Bands, The Books, The Fashions, And The Way In Which The Young Adult Community Develops Its Own Language.

Writing For Young Children I Find I Often Use Particular Jokes With Words And Exaggerated, Funny Events, But Some Of These Haunt The More Complex Stories For Older Children Too.

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.

New Zealand Is The Only Country I Know Well Enough To Write About. It Can Sometimes Lead To Complications.

Reading Is Very Creative - It's Not Just A Passive Thing. I Write A Story; It Goes Out Into The World; Somebody Reads It And, By Reading It, Completes It.