Fear Can Give You Urgent Wings.

People Can Say What They Like About The Eternal Verities, Love And Truth And So On, But Nothing's As Eternal As The Dishes.

At The Same Time, I Think Books Create A Sort Of Network In The Reader's Mind, With One Book Reinforcing Another. Some Books Form Relationships. Other Books Stand In Opposition. No Two Writers Or Readers Have The Same Pattern Of Interaction.

Canadians Are Americans With No Disneyland.

If A Job's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Twice.

Writing For Young Children I Find I Often Use Particular Jokes With Words And Exaggerated, Funny Events, But Some Of These Haunt The More Complex Stories For Older Children Too.