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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.