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Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

It was always about the story rather than the character.