Random wisdom: Salman Rushdie.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

It's a thousand pages/ Give or take a few/ I'll be writing more/ In a week or two.

Bill Bryson.
Truman Capote.
Patricia Cornwell.
Roald Dahl.
Amitav Ghosh.
Guy de Maupassant.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Graham Greene.
Carl Hiaasen.
Helen Fielding.
Elmore Leonard.
Steve Martin.
Haruki Murakami.
Salman Rushdie.
Carl Sagan.
Paul Theroux.
(And Stephen King stays.)

Dream a little dream.

Douglas Adams.
Isaac Asimov.
AS Byatt.
Lee Child.
John Connolly.
Jasper Fforde.
Carrie Fisher.
Stephen King.
Jhumpa Lahiri.
Kathy Lette.
Larry Niven.
Sylvia Plath.
Terry Pratchett.
JK Rowling.
WB Yeats.
If you must write, write like them.

I'm the gin in the gin-soaked boy.

What happens to people when they unsuspectingly ask me to write about glamour in advertising. Hah.