“The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.”

“It is possible to be happy and successful by living on ones own terms.”

“Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.”

“People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.”

“I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which given that Im emerging from dark times can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and wi...”

“I like working among creative clutter. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”

“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”

“Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help.Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you?Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing.Fenoglio: Oh no, it'...”

“Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.”

“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.”

“As with writing by candlelight, ones greatest ideas come from the flickering between darkness and light.”

“There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is a writer.”