top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."
Goal
"I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick."
People
"I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can."
Positive
"It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing."
Dream
"Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives."
Business
"I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game."
Competition
"Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly."
Life
"This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home."
Home
"I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down."
Care
"Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it."
Work
More
"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Of all matches never was the like."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's not rage that drives me, it's competition."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page