Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.

Words

Fear less hope more eat less chew more whine less breathe more talk less say more love more and all good things will be yours.

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.

When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Eventually you will be dead, but today you are not.