Kate Adie

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.