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• I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked…
• When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly…
• Fear can give you urgent wings.
• Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always…
• Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books,…
• Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what…
• My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as…
• Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
• Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
• Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt…
• I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I…
• When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written…

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