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I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.