What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director.

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!