I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.