Quotes from Arthur Slade

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.

The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.

As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.

The eye is always half-full.

He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire.

Sky was the first god. Robert knew that there was only one God and he had a Son who was also God, but there were gods who had vanished: the gods of thunder, of fire, of the wide oceans of the earth.

I feel sorry for you. One morning you will get up and your dreams will stay in your pillow.

his hands as if her were

It's like an icicle in my heart

But here, under the wide blue skies, the wind was the flood. Everyone drowned in it.

the grim looks on their faces that they, too, didn't like leaving a battle unfought. I can feel your sadness, Brax sent the thought to me. It is understandable. But that is the unforgiving logic of war. Hard choices have to be made. I know, I sent back. The logic doesn't make the choice any easier. Pray choices like that never become easy.

One can never have too many books. Or read too many books.

But I do know you need to clear out the old to make way for the new. See, isn't that a wise saying? Won't I make a good and clever king? I'm fit for the role.

It was as if a giant paw of a dragon was resting on the earth.

People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

It seems so easy to write about some normal event and twist it a little bit to make it into a supernatural event.

As with all types of writing, fantastical fiction depends on the same basic rules.

Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.