She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction (ed. Hachette UK, 2016) - ISBN: 9781472208002