Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.