What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.