If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. |
If I can't see something enough, I shut my eyes and look at it, and I there. |
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young. |
In my 20s some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was 27 before my adult novel... was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. |
In whatever form, or by whatever means, everyone has the right to develop or transform-providing this hurts no one else in any life-threatening way. |
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. |
Locality is, in my case, unimportant. My mind and heart go where they wish. |
My interest in reincarnation... I explored in a number of works. |
My parents were dancers, and we traveled around a lot, so I went to some very ropy schools where I learned a lot about being bullied and not a great deal about anything else. |
No one is ever ordinary. |
Once I could read, I think writing followed very quickly; I was able to put down my words and letters... So there's just over a year between my learning to read and beginning to write. |
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me. |
Pirates have always fascinated me. |
Rachmaninov had an endless influence on me. |
The contrast between the ancient and the modern is what I enjoy most about these books. I don't know why, and have no intellectual reason I can give. |