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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy…
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...…
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The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
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Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be…
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Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger…
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from…
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Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -…
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more…
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The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when…
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Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
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When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and…
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The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful…
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I love Roald Dahl.
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Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over…
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A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.…
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There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl.…
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