I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

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Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

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If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

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For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

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Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

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