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Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have been all along, and I'll stay in this role as long as I'm a writer.

You become a great writer by writing.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.