People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil’s servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange.
There aren’t any good guys, and there aren’t any bad guys. There’s just us. People. Doing our best to get by.
Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.
The truth is, it’s not the idea, it’s never the idea, it’s always what you do with it.
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
I think of myself as a very lazy author.
I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly.
And so there is magic.
I learned to write by writing.
Most of us only find our own voices after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people.
The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.
You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.
Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.
If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.
I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you’ve done something.
I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.
Libraries really are the gates to the future.
I’ve learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.
If you don’t know it’s impossible, it’s easier to do.