Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
Every writer has to find their own way into writing.
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.
Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories. I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.
The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.
Assume the best but hire paranoid people.
In my world, the wronger something feels, the righter it is.