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“These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

“Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

“But anyone of us who starts writing and treats what comes out as ‘oop, here come the results of the referendum on whether I’m a complete piece of shit’ is going to have a bad time.”
― Tim Clare

“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

“The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.”
― China Miéville

“When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.”
― Terry Pratchett