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 build and play and dance and live as only you can. Read Summary
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. Read Summary
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. Read Summary
Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. Read Summary
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 any other rules. Not ones that matter. Read Summary
I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. Read Summary
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. Read Summary
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? Read Summary
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. Read Summary
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do. Read Summary
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. Read Summary
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer. Read Summary
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Read Summary
It has always been the prerogative 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. Read Summary
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. Read Summary
Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas. Read Summary
Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. Read Summary
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. Read Summary
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. Read Summary
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. Read Summary