The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.