I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
I always love writing about children.
The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.