"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'"
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"But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept."
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"Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story."
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"Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would."
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"I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination."
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"Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')"
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"I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating."
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"And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet."
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"Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets."
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"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you."
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"Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it."
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"Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem..."
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"You are an analog girl, living in a digital world."
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"I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways."
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"Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art."
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"It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill."
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"Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."
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"But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them."
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"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
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