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" Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. "

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" People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. "

" I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live. "

" I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film. "

" When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened. "

" So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix. "

" If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little. "

" It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. "

" There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. "

" There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books. "

" Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable. "

" When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. "

" I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. "

" I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do. "

" Every book should have a romance. "

" The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. "

" Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres. "

" I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. "

" Class clowns become actors. "

" In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare. "

" I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. "

" I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them. "

" I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels. "

" Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books. "