Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1970
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working wi….
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley.
As for me... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare.….
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed..
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you….
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly..
When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good….
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacki….
I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself..
Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle bar….
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too dista….
Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurat….
Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't….
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled..
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differenc….
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down..
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chao….
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood..
The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of….
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something….
Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switche….