Occupation: Writer Birth: March 27, 1953
Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it ….
That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others..
It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidl….
Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling….
She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh..
In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home..
How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?.
Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things..
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later..
You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then..
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver..
In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves..
Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely re….
Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not..
No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you a….
Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!.
There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearte….
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are….
Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters..
You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agath….
Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen….