You Know, One Of The Tragedies Of

A Spinning Coin, Still Balanced On Its Rim, May Fall In Either Direction.

You Should Write Because You Love The Shape Of Stories And Sentences And The Creation Of Different Words On A Page. Writing Comes From Reading, And Reading Is The Finest Teacher Of How To Write.

I Think It's Important To Leave Spaces In A Story For Readers To Fill In From Their Own Experience.

If You Get The Landscape Right, The Characters Will Step Out Of It, And They'll Be In The Right Place.

I Rarely Use The Internet For Research, As I Find The Process Cumbersome And Detestable. The Information Gained Is Often Untrustworthy And Couched In Execrable Prose. It Is Unpleasant To Sit In Front Of A Twitching Screen Suffering Assault By Virus, Power Outage, Sluggish Searches, System Crashes And The Lack Of Direct Human Discourse.