When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

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

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

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.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.