I don't do these 'about me' things well. I'm a thirty-something Aussie who wishes she could write. I'm what you could call a natural-born reader and therefore live in awe of any and all who possess the ability to write. Whole worlds - characters and plots and locations and motivations and other things ending in '-ations', and it just comes out of your head! The whole writing caper just looks like too much work for me. Did I mention I'm a lazy procrastinator? No? Oh I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually...

Favourite Quotes:

"Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs." Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

"An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on." Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

"All dwarfs are by nature dutiful, serious, literate, obedient and thoughtful people whose only minor failing is a tendency, after one drink, to rush at enemies screaming "Arrrrrrgh!" and axing their legs off at the knee." Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

"The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly." Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Good Omens)

"All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums." Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Good Omens)

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head." Jasper Fforde (Well of Lost Plots)

“Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.” Jasper Fforde (Something Rotten)

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx