Paul Kane Quotes

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• As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind…
• The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone…
• I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material…
• Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before…
• This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and…
• For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in…
• Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also…
• I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's…
• I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning…
• I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we…
• I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal…
• I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well…
• I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction…
• I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of…
• It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking…
• My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets.…
• Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if…
• Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to…
• Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do…
• Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots…

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