The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.