I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.