I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast i….

There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they'….

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive..

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks plante….

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this j….

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home..

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next..

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time..

I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of their marriage. The….

When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though ri….

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books..

Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped….

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating..

We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's like secret adult's business. It'….

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this f….

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don….

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather..

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept..

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain..

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact t….