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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 learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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I was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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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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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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It isn’t like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there’s a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
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