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.

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

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.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

I feel like I'm giving other people such an opportunity to go and reach for something.

You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?