If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.