I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.