identity Quotes

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.