Work hard at . . . something.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs