There are lots of artists in the world. But there’s only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you’ve done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I’m doing an architectural diagram of something.
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
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.
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.
As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don’t have that.
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they’re the basic places stories come from. They’re the clay that you make the bricks out of.
Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they’re on a tour.
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I’d go and work my way through the children’s area.
It’s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – we’re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something’s in the world that wasn’t there before.