…it's easier to squeeze a melon through the eye of a needle than it is to get a UK publisher to think in other than Gutenberg terms.
Sir Terry Pratchett on UK publishers
Sir Terry Pratchett apparently said this about UK publishers unwillingness to embrace anything invented after the sixteenth century. We found it on the Internet so "it must be true".
…it’s easier to squeeze a melon through the eye of a needle than it is to get a UK publisher to think in other than Gutenberg terms. Sir Terry Pratchett on UK publishers Sir Terry Pratchett apparently said this about… Continue Reading →
Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.
Malorie Blackman, Boys Don't Cry
Sometimes the things you’re convinced you don’t want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world. Malorie Blackman, Boys Don’t Cry
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
Beatrix Potter
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you. Beatrix Potter
Leave wasn’t an alternate economic or political model. It was a blank canvas which people could project their hopes, aspirations and frustrations onto. This was the only way you could get voters from the shires to vote with those from post-industrial towns in the north. It was a fantasy land of universal expectation.
Ian Dunt, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: Everything You Need to Know about Britain's Divorce from Europe
Leave wasn’t an alternate economic or political model. It was a blank canvas which people could project their hopes, aspirations and frustrations onto. This was the only way you could get voters from the shires to vote with those from… Continue Reading →
I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?
Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses
I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it’s not the individuals who are… Continue Reading →
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely
Roald Dahl
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face… Continue Reading →
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
George Orwell
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. George… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I’ll jot things down before I start, though. But normally I only find out what it’s about and what’s happening when it’s being written.
Neil Gaiman (link)
Sometimes I’ll jot things down before I start, though. But normally I only find out what it’s about and what’s happening when it’s being written. Neil Gaiman (link)
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