For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.