It’s never too early for ice cream.
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!
Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver’s seat. Make one tiny mistake and you’re dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women’s clothes.
A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don’t have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.
And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.
Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.
I never base characters on real people – you can get into so much trouble that way!
What the guys have learned is that whether you’re preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn’t matter. That one person you touch may change the nation – could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I’m writing. So, every book I write has its own “soundtrack.”
I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I’m a huge advocate of plotting.
The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years.
I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it’s written, can really help your character develop.
I can’t imagine myself not being an actor.
Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.
That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.
Josh started to laugh at his sister and then immediately reconsidered. “I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.
Areop-Enap was ontwaakt... ‘Je kunt nu maar beter uit de weg gaan,’ zei ze met een verrassend welluidende stem.
Jullie dragen de genen van de oorspronkelijke tweeling die tien millennia geleden op Danu Talis heeft gevochten. Sophie, jij en je broer zijn de afstammelingen van goden. – Nicolas Flamel.