People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.'

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader

Words and statements work both ways - to build or destroy.

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

When thieves fall out honest men come by their own.

You transfix me quite.

I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.