You is getting nosier than a parker.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
Eschew all those beastly adjectives.
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.