Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

My Book and Heart Shall never part.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

What you really want to do, the objective is to get as many students coming out of there thinking differently than they went in.