She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.