"It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors."
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"People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere."
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"Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror."
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"The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in."
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"After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again."
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"I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun."
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"TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them."
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"Certainly the Americans want to buy rights, but have no idea what to do with them."
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"It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time."
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"I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff."
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"Who knows what the future holds."
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"What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it."
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"It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case."
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"I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing."
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"The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five."
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"Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing."
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"I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places."
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"There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal."
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"First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind."
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"When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you line them up as actually as you possibly can, but sooner or later the book has got momentum and it's moving along under that momentum. It's like a sculpture, if you're working with the grain of the wood, the wood will start defining what shape it's going to become."
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