I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.