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Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.