Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
One reason writers write is out of revenge.
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.
I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.