Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.