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The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green an...more

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I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see...more

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There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do tha...more

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It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way"; that you could start at a path leading nowhere mo...more

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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. Fr...more

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The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

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How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the worl...more