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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.