The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

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

I was always influenced by language.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

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

i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

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