"I’m a romantic. Perhaps at a push, we could fit this novel in among the Romantics. But I think it’s better placed as …"

"I’m particularly interested in Balthazar and his study of the stars and planets, and the courageous way in which he c…"

"Yes, I wrote these verses to complement each of the Parts One, Two and Three. Each verse places a solitary figure on …"

"Sarah Clayton made a podcast with my husband, Don Pinnock, who is an expert on youth at risk. She was looking at the …"

"No, this is not my first book for children. But the “ethos” in all those I have written is consistent. They all evoke…"

"I wanted to give a sense of: “Come with me and let’s look at some wonderful, natural things, and let’s have fun, but …"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of th…"

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."

"It is the not-yet in the now, The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist Hanging the blossom on the bough."