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"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum."
"How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!"
"Mechanics of Mind: Remember the nature of the mind - Mind is never where you are, it is always somewhere else!"
"The mind is time bound however, the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless."
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"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us."
"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."
"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
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