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- Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't…
- The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
- The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish…
- Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man…
- Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you.…
- We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired…
- THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never…
- Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams
- I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
- There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the…
- Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
- The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all…
- The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and…
- I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
- The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are…
- As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers…
- Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length…
- I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us…
- The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add…
- Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power…
- Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the…
- So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and…
- The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was…
- There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories…
- Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are…
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