Stick A Lighted Candle Up Your Backside

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.

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.

Writers Have Opinions - That, In Part, Is Why They Write. Therefore They Have Strong Likes And Dislikes.

Marriage Is The Gold Standard Of All Relationships. It's The Currency By Which Everything Is Valued.

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