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Cornelia Funke
“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

W. Somerset Maugham
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
W. Somerset Maugham

Howard Nemerov
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
Howard Nemerov

George R.R. Martin
“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

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

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