Simon Toyne Quotes
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'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.
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When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.
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We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.
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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
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One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.
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I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
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As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.
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The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.