You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

With a long distant friend, I enjoy changing this obstacle into an opportunity by creating annual 'frienditions' to see and do something new and different together.

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.

That's why they become politicians.