Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.