[h]ope Takes You By The

As A Writer, You Owe It To Yourself Not To Get Stuck In A Rut Of Looking At The World In A Certain Way.

Fiction Isn't Made By Scraping The Bones Of Topicality For The Last Shreds And Sinews, To Be Processed Into Mechanically Recovered Prose. Like Journalism, It Deals In Ideas As Well As Facts, But Also In Metaphors, Symbols And Myths.

It Is Almost A Joke, But A Joke That Nobody Tells.

[h]ope Takes You By The Throat Like A Stranger, It Makes Your Heart Leap.

Insight Cannot Be Taken Back. You Cannot Return To The Moment You Were In Before.