My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.