"It has always been the perogative of children……" — Neil Gaiman

"It has always been the perogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are…
Whenever it rains you will think of her.
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
Fear is contagious. You can catch it.
It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.
I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you…
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning,…
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a…
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

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