You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

This is my life homie, you decide yours.

We never get so near God as when we plead for others..

Good wares make good markets..

I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. W….

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound th….

A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are….

I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. Th….

The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence….

Never hope for it more than you work for it..

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do..

To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the pre….

I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradicti….

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of Engla….

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story..

One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my ….

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up..

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible..

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write..

In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or kind actions throughout the we….