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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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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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I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

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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