![]() Ideas come first – usually visually driven. I must have read it at least ten times, cover to cover. What was your favourite book as a child?.In terms of the text, I have a soft spot for The Discovery of Dragons and also TruckDogs because it was the first (and so far only) time I have written a long-form story. What is your favourite book that you have written?.Writing came later when I figured out that if I wrote the stories myself l could draw what I wanted instead of what someone else wanted. ![]() Other times simply being away from normal life allows my mind to wander in an imaginative receptive way, and that’s when new ideas sneak in.Īctually, I always wanted to be an artist (or maybe a musician). ![]() Sometimes they come directly from an experience ( The Sign of the Seahorse was inspired by my first experience of scuba diving in Martinique) or something I have seen (a sail-like lampshade on a hotel wall in France inspired the idea of a ‘Snailing Ship’, which became The Legend of the Golden Snail). ![]() ![]() I was born in Amershan in the south of England in 1958.įor me travel is the best way of getting new ideas. ![]()
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