Admitting Failure Is Quite Cleansing,

As A Young Child My Attention Span Was, As I Remember It, Rather Short.

Read A Lot - Poems, Prose, Stories, Newspapers, Anything. Read Books And Poems That You Think You Will Like And Some That You Think Might Not Be For You. You Might Be Surprised.

I Don't Consciously Try To Take My Readers On A Journey As I Don't Really Think About My Readers When I'm Writing. I Just Try To Write What I Feel Passionately About, To Tell A Story Down Onto The Page.

There's Room For All Sorts Of Magic And Miracles In This World - That's What I Think.

Any Story You Write About War, Or Film You Make About War, Is Bound To Be Political Whether You Like It Or Not.