Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.