The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn’t always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine – they’re more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good. Eric Brown Read Quote
Why my interest in writers? Well, I’m one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it’s like to write. I’m interested in the creative process. I’m fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us. Eric Brown Read Quote
The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody’s a publisher. Eric Brown Read Quote
To me, it’s all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music. Eric Brown Read Quote
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general. Eric Brown Read Quote
I think it’s a short story writer’s duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. Eric Brown Read Quote
Well, to be honest I think I’m a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought – whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. Eric Brown Read Quote
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it’s not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven’t written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. Eric Brown Read Quote
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I’m writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. Eric Brown Read Quote
