Creative people need strong encouragement.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!