When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.
Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
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