Quotes by Sheila Hancock

I would love to enjoy leisure, but I find it very difficult to sit down and do nothing.

What I would love to do is more telly comedy. I did a tiny bit in 'Toast of London' and was in one episode of Catherine Tate's 'Nan.' I was crying with laughter.

I love cars with a passion.

I always find it a bit embarrassing when people sing 'Auld Lang Syne.' Nobody knows when it finishes, so it goes on and on.

I love being in my car with Radio 3 on.

I'm actually involved with DigiSmart, a project to get nine-11-year-olds to love books.

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying, why don't you write about me?

If you're creating a story, it's a lovely sort of secret thing going on in your head.

Prompting children to create imaginary worlds is hugely important.

Just as our bodies need to be exercised, so, perhaps, do our brains.