"What is your favourite food?"

"I don’t think I have one - I like a lot, and we cook a lot with Asian spices like lemon grass and fish sauce."

"I have a twin sister whose name is Anne, and as we live in the same city I’m constantly getting mistaken for her, and…"

"I read a tremendous amount. But I also ride a mountain bike round the Wellington hills and on bike tours, and sail an…"

"Can’t bring it down to one. Which part of childhood, anyway? When you were little and my mother used to read Beatrix …"

"I started writing as a child, and then it got lost, and it was only when I began reading to my own children that I th…"

"Writing is not about inspiration! In the main it’s about hard work and frustration and rewriting and rewriting. But t…"

"The worst is when you can’t think where to go in your writing, and an idea won’t get written."

"Write! (See the first sentence above - ‘best and worst thing about being a writer’)"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"