I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
My major allegiance has been to storytelling not to history.
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know...
At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in...
Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively...