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I'd never been published when I was young.

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

I never wrote my books especially for children.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.