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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
― Terry Pratchett

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
― Raymond Chandler

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”
― Elmore Leonard

“Magick is for all, but not all are for magick.”
― Ben Galley, The Forever King

“A man is nothing without dreams. A man is called idiot while he dreams. Whatever he does, he'll be judged and thrown away from the circle of clowns. And yet he needs acceptance and security from sick society, which is discriminatory far too often. But a man is blinded by other people opinions. He wants to fly and they say, “You moron, you can't do that, it's forbidden, it's stupid.” And a man gives up on his dreams.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

“All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon