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Unless You Can Be In A Place Yourself And Go Through The Subject Of Your Story Yourself, The Next Best Thing Is Not To Read A Book About It, Or See A Movie About It, It's To Talk To The People Who've Been There.

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.

Everyone Is Interested In War, In That People Don't Want It To Happen. I'm Much More Interested In Peace Than In War But It's Important To Understand Why We Fight.

Wherever My Story Takes Me, However Dark And Difficult The Theme, There Is Always Some Hope And Redemption, Not Because Readers Like Happy Endings, But Because I Am An Optimist At Heart. I Know The Sun Will Rise In The Morning, That There Is A Light At The End Of Every Tunnel.

I Was Never A Great Reader, But There Were Two Stories I Loved Best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child And The Jungle Book. Deep Down, I've Always Wanted To Write A Book About A Wild Child And An Elephant.