I THINK EVERY writer doubts themselves, every DAY. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're ALWAYS afraid it's not going to be as good as you WANT it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

There are, I BELIEVE, three STEPS to OVERCOMING FEAR: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

I LOVE OVERCOMING CHALLENGES and FEAR.

Hungry for both FANTASY and INSPIRATION, readers CRAVE protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, TRIUMPH at the end of the day.

We are lagging FAR BEHIND comparable countries in overcoming the DISADVANTAGES Indigenous PEOPLE FACE.

I don't REALLY love WRITING. I don't love the FEELING of starting a NEW file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.

From day one, snowboarding led me down a TOTALLY different path, and it's that path that's kept me laughing and continually intrigued. I love the satisfaction at the end of the day of OVERCOMING my FEARS, of spending all day outside working HARD, and there's nothing better than the feeling of landing a new trick for the first TIME.

Fairytales work on TWO levels. On a CONSCIOUS level, they are stories of true love and triumph and OVERCOMING difficult odds and so are pleasurable to READ. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and FEARS.

A lot of my FANS WANTED a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies me overcoming the situation I was in and just that triumphant kind of song. So, I FELT LIKE I wanted to go ahead and get that out of both of our systems with 'Good Woman'.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a THING as an objectively defined 'free market' is the FIRST step TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM.

Fear has been a big battle, it RUNS RAMPANT in my sport so I LOVE to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that FEELS as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and SOMETHING that has blocked you in such a big way.

By USING novels, I SHOW ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great ODDS.

All the WORLD is FULL of SUFFERING. It is ALSO full of OVERCOMING.

The OVERCOMING of adversity and, ULTIMATELY, denying it the rite of PASSAGE, has been a constant and PERPETUAL motive throughout my life.

Directing while OVERCOMING DIFFERENCES of LANGUAGE and culture is a stimulating CHALLENGE.