There is much to be said for solitude.

We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.