"Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra."
"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."
"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read."
"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost."