One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things.

Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.