Paul Kane Quotes

The Most Terrifying Thing I Can Think Of Is Being Alone - And I Mean Utterly Alone, Like No One Else In The World Alone - At Night. That's The Nucleus Of The First Story In My Collection And It's Also Where The Title Came From For The Book.

I Also Paint, Draw And I'm Into Film And Photography As Well, And The Same Thing Applies To All Of Them. You're Presenting This Material To The General Public And Hoping That They're Going To 'get' What You're Doing. Some Don't, Some Do.

Because I'm Such A Creative Person, And I've Always Got My Nose In A Book, I Suppose It Was Only A Matter Of Time Before Non-fiction Turned Into Fiction Again. But I Never Consciously Set Out To Become A Writer And I Never Thought I'd Be Doing The Things I'm Doing Today.

This Sort Of Encouragement Is Vital For Any Writer. And Lastly The Publication Of Touching The Flame, Which Was On Hold For Two Years And Went Through A Few Publishers Before Finding A Stable Home.

It's Not Just That Toil Allows The Appearance Of Spontaneity. It Allows The Actuality Of Spontaneity.

Some Writers Would Be Kinder Than Others, I'm Sure. Hopefully They Might Describe My Techniques As A Mixture Of Tried And Tested Formulas - If It Aint Broke Don't Fix It - And Unexpected Twists.

I Believe That, Like Most Writers, My Personality Comes Through In The Fiction. So In That Respect My Writing Can’t Be Like Any Other Author’s Really.

It Was Relatively Easy To Write 'the Cave Of Lost Souls', Though, Because It Came To Me One Night In A Dream. I Remember Waking Up And Having This Idea For A Complete Story - From Start To Finish - In My Head, So I Jotted It Down, Then Later Began Writing The Thing.

Having Said That, I'm A Huge Jack Nicholson Fan Because He Just Goes Nuts In Everything He Does. Having Jack In His Heyday Would Also Be A Dream Come True.

I Love A Good Laugh As Well, I Think That's So Important In Life, Which Is Probably Why I've Dabbled In Comedy Writing As Well As Horror. I Think If You Can Make Someone Laugh Or Smile It's The Most Special Thing In The World.

Writing Can Be A Very Solitary Business. It's You Sat At A Desk Typing Words Into A Computer. It Can Get Lonely Sometimes And Lots Of Writers Live Quite Isolated Lives.

I Can Look Back At Stuff I Wrote In My Early Days And Squirm At Some Of The Mistakes I Made. But We're All Learning Every Day; We Never Stop. I Just Hope People Keep On Liking What I Do. That Gives Me Such A Kick.