I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.