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"Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them."
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"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"
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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."
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"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
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"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."
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"She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspiration. However her heart lacked the will as the empty words enclosed her soul pulling it down towards the frenzied ravenous imps that stalked hells pantry...."
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"Creativity is like the ocean: sometimes it is an unstoppable wave bursting forth, crashing onto the shore, and overwhelmingly flowing with no hope of restraint; other times it is completely still, lingering aimlessly and endlessly, seemingly devoid of any inspiration."
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"Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness."
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"A good imitation is the most perfect originality."
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"I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im."
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"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']"
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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
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"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."
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"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
People

"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
Travel

"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."
Writing

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
Literature

"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
Man

"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
Power

"In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."
Nature
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