I hate concepts. Having a concept isn’t having something to write: having something to write about is having something to write. Never favour plot. Story is fine, but plot is like chemical farming. Closure is wrong. It is toxic. Work into a genre if you like, but from as far outside it is possible. Read […]
En la Maison des Auteurs de Angulema tuve la oportunidad de descrubrir un montón de maneras distintas de trabajar… y todas parecían más divertidas que la mía. La mayor parte de los autores dejaban margen a la improvisación en el tablero y eso los mantenía enganchados y felices, eran creativos durante todo el proceso y […]
Bailamos, nos dimos palmadas en las espaldas unos a otros, contamos viejas historias. Los hombres escuchaban, todo oídos, hasta que estimaban que podían soltar una carcajada. Entonces no creíamos que el tiempo fuera un bien que tuviera fin, sino algo que duraba para siempre; todo se había detenido en ese momento. Es difícil explicar lo […]
Por fin, el médium accedía. En general marcaba a muy pocos. Esta vez eligió a una chica delgada, de pecho plano y caderas anchas, que estaba lejos de la primera línea de Iniciados aulladores, una chica que le pedía por favor con los labios, de pie, una chica que no era una loba ni una […]
I usually say of the new wave that I was of it but not in it. As a young and raw writer I loved the propaganda from Mike Moorcock and his followers about doing your own thing, casting off the clichés of the past, taking inspiration not from the American science-fiction tradition but from poetry, […]
The next day, he reached Santander in a driving rain. He deciden to write amusing letters to all of his friends, perhaps even try his hand at a travel sketch. That required a typewriter. The conserje at his hotel directed him to a store that rented typewriters. He went there and found a clerk who […]
I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don’t have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses, and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It is a pretty wild country. There are, of course, roads. Great artists make the roads; […]
‘Fergus, you’re a Tory. When Tories say freedom they mean money; the freedom to send your child to a private school means the money to send your child to a private school. The freedom to invest in South Africa means the money to invest there so you can make even more. And don’t tell me […]
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen. I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of the car crash, in the […]
Quiero decir, las quinientas personas o mil o cuantas haya en una sala, ¿cómo se enfrentan a una película como esa? Hay demasiado sentido común flotando en la sala, y para enfrentarse a una película como esa hay que dejar a un lado el sentido común, algo más fácil de hacer cuando estás a solas. […]