Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
ALAN GARNERWhen you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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I’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.
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My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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