“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.”
“If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.”
“Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough”
“When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.”
“You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.”
“Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough." ”