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Character is a set of walls, like the four walls of a squash court. They are the boundaries of what a fictional person can do. Things happen and a person reacts. He cannot have a reaction outside the walls of “character.” For the most part the hero cannot, due to his moral nature, gun down a defenseless man. This wall of his character makes him appealing but, in certain emergencies, limits his range of action.

I’m not a big fan of inspiration. I’m too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss… I write a lot, and I’m not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can always fix something weak and dull. But I can’t fix a blank page.

Never.Stop.Writing. Those words that you think are pathetic, that you think aren’t good enough, that you think nobody would ever want to read..could be the words that save somebody’s life. Write to inspire others. Write to inspire yourself.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don’t have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don’t have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or bought, or sold or read.

How to deal with writer’s block: ‘I just lower my standards and carry on.’

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.