I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.

Books are readable drugs.

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.