It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.