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" It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. "

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" The one thing that 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 live as only you can. "

" The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. "

" So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. "

" The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why. "

" I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. "

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

" A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. "

" It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. "

" When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. "

" Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. "

" The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. "

" Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. "

" I'm a fairly undisciplined writer. "

" A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. "

" As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones. "

" I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. "

" Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. "

" When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from. "

" Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. "

" Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. "

" My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him. "

" As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. "

" Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. "

" The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. "

" I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't. "

" Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. "

" This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. "

" Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. "

" As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. "