"At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young."

Family, Children, Writers, Newzealander

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"At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people."

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