I Don't Want To Die,

Anyone Interested In The World Generally Can't Help Being Interested In Young Adult Culture - In The Music, The Bands, The Books, The Fashions, And The Way In Which The Young Adult Community Develops Its Own Language.

At This Stage I Am Not Involved With Young Adults As Closely As Many Other Writers. My Children Are Grown Up And My Grandchildren Are Still Quite Young.

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 Ever After. Love At First Sight Was Nothing But Infatuation Until Proved By Time.

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

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 That Works Well Is Just As Exciting To Me As Any Longer And More Complex Book.