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One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.