Zen in the Art of Writing

Right now I'm kind of on a jag of reading books by writers who are writing about their writing or writing about something else other than their fiction.

I've read Ray Bradbury's Zen and the Art of Writing, I think is what it's called.

It was excellent.

It's a collection of essays.

The whole business of reading for pleasure is so important that kids get their noses stuck into comics.

There's some cracking graphic novels now and books of all sorts.

The motivation, the desire to read... is only going to come, in my view, from two places.

One is having a knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher.

And I don't think at that point I knew it was you, did I? Possibly, possibly not, but it was a very memorable conversation.

Yeah, we fell to talking, Jamie, and we just got chatting.

I think one of us might have been holding a book or something, but we just got chatting about kids' books that we loved

and