Fear Can Give You Urgent Wings.

New Zealand Is The Only Country I Know Well Enough To Write About. It Can Sometimes Lead To Complications.

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

Reading Is Very Creative - It's Not Just A Passive Thing. I Write A Story; It Goes Out Into The World; Somebody Reads It And, By Reading It, Completes It.

Try Not To Become Disappointed If Someone Doesn't Like A Story You've Written. Stick Up For Your Ideas, But Listen To What Other People Say, Too. They Might Have Good Advice.

I Know Things Are Unbearable But In Spite Of That We Have To Bear Them.