You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.