#writing

"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love."

"Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot."

"Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light."

"I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow."

"Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."

"To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself."

"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"

"Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'."

"…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…"

"you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

"The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome"doubt."

"You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way."

"Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong."

"No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place."

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."

"Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves."

"A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge."

"All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born."

"some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout."