I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

We girls, we're tough, darling. Soft on the outside but, deep down, we're tough.

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

Always take the high road.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.