20 Quotes by Catherine Jinks

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Lilith Norman and Wrightson were pumping out hugely inspiring stuff.

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.

I'm a very nervy kind of person, who finds it almost impossible to relax.

What ever you do-Don’t get caught.

How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you’d pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life.