Nick Ward

Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?

A writer, an artist or a baker!

Q: What are you afraid of?

Heights and snakes (especially snakes up high!)

Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?

Yesterday

Q: What do you do as a hobby?

Read

Q: What’s your favourite food?

Mussels and chips

Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?

A high-wire snake juggler

Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?

Younger, most of the time

Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?

Mervyn Peake

Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?

Kindness

Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?

The place where my grandfather was injured in WW1

Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?

Do what makes you happy

Q: What would you most like to change about yourself?

I would like to worry less

Q: What has life taught you?

Worrying is a waste of time

Q: How long have you been a writer?

38 years

Q: Where do you do your writing?

I have a little studio at the bottom of my garden. That's where I am right now

Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?

From that special place between asleep and awake

Q: Which of your own characters do you most identify with?

Charlie Small

Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?

Go for a walk, and not panic

Q: What was your favourite book as a child?

The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Wind in the Willows, The Island of Adventure