Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.