It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.