I think we ought to live happily ever after.
A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.
Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
A fickle heart is the only constant in this world
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.
Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.
The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!
"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.
I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!
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