Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

My job in many ways has been to navigate interesting routes around subjects people think are dull.

Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.