Motivations Are Too Tangled And Complex.

It's Hard To Spend Years At A Time Working In Total Solitude With No Reality-check.

What I Am Finding Now Is That My Audience Is Getting Younger As I Get Older, Which Is A Very Good Thing As You Know - You Don't Want Them To Get Older As You Get Older.

Although I Still Occasionally Paint And Draw, My Life Has Now Been Shaped By My Writing.

You Go Out Into The World, You Read Everything You Can Read, You Imitate The Things You Love, And You Learn How Hard It Is To Do. Eventually, You Learn Your Own Vision Of The World, You Learn Your Own Voice And How To Hear It, And You Learn To Write Your Own Work. Writers Today Have As Many Opportunities As My Generation Did, But They Don't See The Examples As Clearly As We Did.

Choose Your Agent As Carefully As You Would Choose Your Accountant Or Lawyer. Or Dentist.