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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.