Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.