I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.
Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
