If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.