I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.