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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
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"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
Horror
"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
Writing
"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
Horror
"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
Horror
"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
Writing
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
Writing
"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
Writing
"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
Time
"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."
Writing
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