Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
- Margaret Atwood
“We all need some time to ourselves – just a few minutes a day to get reacquainted with the one who’s been there since the beginning.”
- seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill
“Let our imagination guide us – and never cease to follow it, for if we do, we grow up and the child inside us is no more.”
- seen in Starbuck’s, Muswell Hill
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas Edison
“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(thanks to Georgina for drawing my attention to it)
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
– Meulana Rumi (thanks to Elaine for the suggestion!)
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
My debut novel On the Holloway Road (Legend Press, February 2009) won the Luke Bitmead Writers' Bursary and was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize.
It tells the story of two young Londoners who, inspired by Jack Kerouac's Beat classic On the Road, embark on a similar search for meaning and freedom in modern-day Britain. 
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