Life Sometimes Gets In The

They Stared At Each Other, Wanting Each Other, Drawn To Each Other, But Their Silent Shout Of Love Went Unheard In The Roar Of Misunderstanding, And The Clatter Of Culturally Ingrained Beliefs.

From The Beginning, When I First Got An Idea For A Story And Wondered If I Could Write It, It Has Always Been The Story That Has Driven Me.

And That's How I Start Myself. I Usually Go Back A Couple Of Pages, Maybe To The Beginning Of The Chapter, And I Start Reading. And As I'm Reading, I'm Tweaking - Putting In A Different Word, Changing The Syntax, Putting That Clause Over There, You Know That Sort Of Thing.

You Learn To Write By Writing, And By Reading And Thinking About How Writers Have Created Their Characters And Invented Their Stories. If You Are Not A Reader, Don't Even Think About Being A Writer.

You Weren't Being Punished. You Were Waiting For Me.