“She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.”

“We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.”

“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it ...”

“Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.”

“It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.”

“I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.”

“Stand up for what is just against the unjust.”

“Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick.”

“The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.”

“There is no such thing as part freedom.”