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If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re ...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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I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?

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And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a de...more

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If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong...more

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I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There w...more

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People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of...more

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People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

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I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer ...more

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So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made...more

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In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Mi...more

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And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the...more

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Shadow was a couple of a hundred yards away from his motel, and he walked there, breathing the cold air, past red and yellow and blue lights advertisi...more

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For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

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As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.