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" I think that I've had a very strange life. "

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Measure Of A Man

" The first story I finished was when I was six years old. "

" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. "

" I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? "

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "

" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "

" I felt I had to solve everyone's problems. "

" No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. "

" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "

" I don't think about who the audience is for my books. "

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "

" Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. "

" The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. "

" You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. "

" I would always want printed books. "

" I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal. "

" Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. "

" There's no formula. "

" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "

" I think you're working and learning until you die. "