The Decision To Write Full Time Was

With A Novel, No Matter Where I Am In It, I'm Fretting About It. Every Time I Write A Book, It Starts With Great Forward Momentum. Then There Seems To Be A Period Where It Slows Down A Bit, And Other Things Intervene. Then I Gain Momentum.

We All Talk About How Much We Hate Lies. Yet We Prefer, So Often, To Be Lied To....because It Allows Us To Dodge All Those Painful Truths We'd Rather Not Hear.

There Were Moments When I Felt Seriously Unhinged; When I Was Convinced That I Would Never, Ever Recover From What Had Happened, When It Was Absolutely Clear To Me That Life From This Point On Would Be Constant Agony.

From Graham Greene, I Learnt How To Be An Accessible Writer Who Grapples With Our Doubts As Sentient Individuals.

Tragedy Is One Of The Larger Prices We Pay For Being Alive. No One Ever Sidesteps Tragedy. It Is Always There, Shadowing Us.