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"I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don't understand it, that's fine."
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional."

"When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'"

"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"

"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."

"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."

"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."

"Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today."

"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."

"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."

"When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker."
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"I've spent awhile trying to figure out where I'm going and the only thing I've come to realize is it doesn't matter where, it's how I get there."

"Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing."

"There was no unknown. He loved me and I loved him. There was no question, no doubt, no uncertainty, which perhaps caused us to lose ourselves indefinitely and enter a void so permanent. One where we stood with such confidence, which sounds lovely; but when you believe you have everything, you simply lose everything."

"I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right."

"I don't want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn't quite pleasing."
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