What I Like About Writing Is The

Failure Makes Success So Much Sweeter, And Allows You To Thumb Your Nose At The Crowds.

At The Age Of 12 I Won The School Prize For Best English Essay. The Prize Was A Copy Of Somerset Maugham's 'introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To This Day I Keep It On The Shelf Between My Collection Of Forester's Works And The Little Urn That Contains My Mother's Ashes.

My First Novel Was Rejected By Some Of The Most Eminent Publishers In The World. Starting Again Was A Real Wrench.

It Was This Same Jesus, The Christ Who, Among Many Other Remarkable Things, Said And Repeated Something Which, Proceeding From Any Other Being Would Have Condemned Him At Once As Either A Bloated Egotist Or A Dangerously Unbalanced Person...when He Said He Himself Would Rise Again From The Dead, The Third Day After He Was Crucified, He Said Something That Only A Fool Would Dare Say, If He Expected Longer The Devotion Of Any Disciples-unless He Was Sure He Was Going To Rise. No Founder Of Any World Religion Known To Men Ever Dared Say A Thing Like That!

I Want To Be Seen As A Good Storyteller. I'm A Manipulator As Well.