“Reflect on what you see, don’t rush into judgement about it.”
“Avoid working on anything else while you’re writing a story.”
“The key component is not the quality of the materials, it’s the magic. If the magic is there in a story, even the ordinary can become extraordinary.”
“Before the magic, first comes your garage. Magic can’t work if your garage is empty.”
“Focus on exactly who it is you are aiming to reach.”
“The intended audience should not be ‘as many people as possible’.”
“There is no substitute for repetition. In running terms, the more you do it, the more you build the right muscles to get you from one place to the next in the quickest and most effective way.”
“Take the old words and make them new again.”
“Share your dreams. Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.”
“Write on the side of the egg.” Meaning “Between a high solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg… Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg.”
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