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

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.

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.

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.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

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

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.