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I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.