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It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conju...more

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And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

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Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the pla...more

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and danc...more

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Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

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I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watching, and did not leave the reader or the viewer feel...more

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My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each...more

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I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a ...more

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and danc...more

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I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into...more

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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that...more

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Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

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Once upon a time,’ is code for ‘I’m lying to you.’ We experience stories as lies and truth at the same time. We learn to empathize with real people vi...more

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~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning,...more

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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.