As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. – Marian Anderson
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing. – Stuart Pearce
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but Im not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. – Jonathan Coe