I Don't Want To Die,

I Think I Am Too Interested In My Own Ideas To Copy Anyone Else's, But I Find That Other People's Imagery, The Flow Of Language In The Outside World, Games With Words, And Ideas About Relationships Are All Most Important To Me.

There Are Certainly Times When My Own Everyday Life Seems To Retreat So The Life Of The Story Can Take Me Over. That Is Why A Writer Often Needs Space And Time, So That He Or She Can Abandon Ordinary Life And "live" With The Characters.

It Can Certainly Happen That Characters In More Sophisticated Stories Can "take Over" As They Develop And Change The Author's Original Ideas. Well, It Certainly Happens To Me At Times.

New Zealand Is The Only Country I Know Well Enough To Write About. It Can Sometimes Lead To Complications.

I've Never Actually Been A Fighter Myself - Fighting Tires Me Out And I'm Not An Efficient Fighter Anyway - But I Have Certainly Seen Other People Have Great Complicated Goes At One Another.