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If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re ...more

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And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

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Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go...more

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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

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And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a de...more

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There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

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Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

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If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he re...more

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Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.

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If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

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Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

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Where does contagion end and art begin?

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The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and...more

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And when things get tough, this is what you should do.Make good art.