It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.