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Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

I just couldn't live without dogs.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldn't write.

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

You can't write if you don't read.