Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.