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"I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going."
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"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 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."
"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."
"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."
"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."
"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."
"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."
"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
"When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ['Back garden of a dream']"
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"While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio."
"The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me."
"It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry."
"I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me."
"I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability."
"I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off."
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