"The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen."
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"Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each."
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"All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end."
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"I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work."
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"Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing."
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"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"
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"Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?"
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"Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody."
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"I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept."
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"Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys...""
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"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it."
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"People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer."
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"Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy."
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"Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour."
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"The lower you start, the more opportunities you have."
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"There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense."
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"I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?"
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"I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author."
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"Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives."
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"Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head."
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