"When children have nothing to do now, they immediately switch on the TV, the computer, the phone or some kind of screen...."

"But children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them."

Children? How about everyone?

"You begin to write because there is nothing to prove, nothing to lose, nothing else to do. It's very freeing being creative for no other reason other than you freewheel and fill time."