The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.