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

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If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.

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If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he re...more

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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.