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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.
Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.
Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.
























