The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier then.

It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.