It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification. You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.

I’ll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

Often I’ll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.