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Edward Bryant |
"Labeling me a horror writer is like labeling me a science fiction writer or a book reviewer or a credit to my race or species. Sure, I write horror. I also write many other things..."
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
"Many would-be writers fail because they give everything else in the world priority...going to movies, playing card games, cleaning toilets..."
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John Kennedy |
"Instead of writing a quick first draft and doing a lot of re-writing, I start at the beginning of the story each time I sit down to write and re-write it from page one. This is not recommended by anyone with any sense."
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Alex Irvine |
"Well, like so many other things, this story is Franz Kafka's fault... But even more than that, the story came from the lyrics of a song by a neo-hippie jam band called Widespread Panic..."
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Melanie Tem |
"Very often, I observe a scene or overhear part of a conversation or dream an image or am told something of someone's life, and I think, "There's a story in that!"
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Steve Rasnic Tem |
"Working on novels is like remodeling your house: it goes on forever, living conditions in the meantime are lousy, and by the time you're finished you've already changed your mind about what you really wanted."
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Connie Willis |
"My humor comes largely from poking fun at people who take themselves too seriously. Comedy is kind of like a pin poking at balloons--they don't explode unless they're already far too full of hot air."
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| Alan M. Clark |
"My parents kept a small journal of the 'silly' things their children said. In it they recorded that in response to being told by my first grade teacher that I had done a good job drawing a bird, I told her, 'Yes, I know. I'm going to be an artist.' "
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