Occupation: Author Birth: March 21, 1936 Death: July 23, 2012
Will you still love me when I'm a monster?.
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wic….
I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on..
It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway..
Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their ….
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I….
There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them..
Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ….
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. Othe….
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an of….
Fear can give you urgent wings..
a man who builds a house never really dies..
I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation..
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words on….
I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them..
I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?.
When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own fam….
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and ….
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I w….
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who do….
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story ….