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Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

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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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When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle ...more

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty whe...more

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Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your hea...more

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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

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A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

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Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. ...more