You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
