You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

I love and hate this place because it is full of words.

How about a kiss, Saumensch?

It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.

If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.