“Study the nature around you, but also within you.”

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

“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.”

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

“I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which – given that I’m 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...”

“Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another mans sleep.”

“I'm not worried about plagiarism, I don't care if every person between here and Hell's creation put their name on my work as long as it ends up in the eyes of someone that found peace in the words”

“They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.”

“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.”

“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.”