I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

The worst enemy in life is resentment.

You get what you order in life.

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.