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"Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner."
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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 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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"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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"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."
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"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."
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"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."
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"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."
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"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."
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"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
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"Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort."
Effort
"Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important."
Mistake
"There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet."
Life
"Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics."
Humor
"It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank."
Time
"The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence."
People
"It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it."
Happiness
"Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner."
Creativity
"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
Rules
"What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change."
Change
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