Find Your Soul And You'll Live. Lose

I'd Have To Struggle To Find A Subject In Which I Can't Get Some Kind Of Interested Pulse Started.

For A Startling Period Of My Life, I Reported The Troubles In Ireland For The Bbc. I Lived In Dublin And Was Called Out To All Sorts Of Incidents That, If Taken Together, Add Up To A War - Bombings, Assassinations, Riots, Shootings, Robberies, Jailbreaks, Kidnappings, And Sieges.

Never Underestimate Their Intelligence, Always Underestimate Their Knowledge.

Start With The Difficult And When It Gets Easy, Everything Else Is Easier.

As An Arts Journalist In London, Working Mainly For The Bbc, I Interviewed Hundreds If Not Thousands Of Authors. From Them I Gleaned A Great Deal Of Passing Instruction In Writing And I Observed One Fascinating Detail: No Two Writers Approach Their Work - Physically - In The Same Way.