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If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it...more

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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

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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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You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of ...more

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I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and ge...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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Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one a...more

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My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a...more

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There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

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Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than ...more

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When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in a...more

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It's a weird thing, writing.Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear sum...more

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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