Reading For Writers Is Like Training For

Reading For Writers Is Like Training For Athletes.

Each Of My Books Has Taken Me A Different Length Of Time To Write - Eight Months For Seesaw Girl, Eight Months For Shard, Three Years For When My Name Was Keoko! The Publisher Takes Another Year And A Half To Work On The Book, So Altogether Each Book Can Take Up To Three Or Four Years To Publish.

I Can Give Advice To Anyone Interested In Writing In One Word: Read! I Think It's Much More Important To Be A Reader Than To Be A Writer!

Why Was It That Pride And Foolishness Were So Often Close Companions?

My Son And I Discovered Terry Pratchett's Books Together, When He Was About Eleven Years Old. He'd Be Reading On His Own And Would Start To Laugh, And Then Eagerly Read The Passage Aloud To Me--and I'd Do The Same To Him! Pratchett's Books Became A Shared Source Of Delight For Us Back Then, And They Still Are Today.