‘You are not directionless. You know what you want and you’re going after it and fuck them if they can’t respect that. As for your parents … I love Martin and Meredith, but their whole lives have followed a traditional trajectory: job, house, marriage, kids. Boring if you ask me. Not you, though – you’re doing things your way and they don’t like it, but that’ll change when they walk into that bookshop and see your name on the shelf.’
