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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

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People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and ...more

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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

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As we write we summon little demons.

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Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip some...more

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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as be...more

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In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.

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Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, someti...more

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I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dre...more

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Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist. We do it for a hundred reasons. (Because it’s good to look forward, not back. Because w...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