Made with Paper
A Necessary Weevil
Made with Paper
“I think there are plenty of people writing books where there is no redemption at all. That seems to be another job that contemporary fiction has taken upon itself—to deny people all hope. I find that tough, actually. People work hard, and their lives are difficult enough as it is without being told by some guy who sits around doing nothing all day that there is no hope for any of us.”
“If my books had been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood. If they had been any better I would not have come.”
Raymond Chandler
“Personally I like my dramas to be a little improbable and my comedies a little absurd. I like, I suppose, to be taken to the edge: to teeter on the brink of plausibility, where logic lives dangerously yet somehow still manages to survive.”
David Renwick
The Em-Bayeux Strikes Back
“I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.”
P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
“I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who’s half a man,
Or the man who’s half a boy.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“In the Kingdom of the Blind
It’s said the one-eyed man is king.
In the Kingdom of the Bland,
It’s nine o’clock on ITV.”
Half Man, Half Biscuit, ‘Corgi Registered Friends’
“I have neither much experience nor much perseverance in the writing of stories.”
M. R. James
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