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When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

Fairy-tales are nice.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.