Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.