“Always dream of the impossible, then try!”

“But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we’ll make a better job of it next time. Unless you’re a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however “successful ” is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.”

“Dream big so your life will be big.”

“I may not be smart enough to do everything, but I am dumb enough to try anything.”

“You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.”

“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.”

“In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.”