A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.
Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.
Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!
The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.
I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
I carried recipes in my head like maps.
Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.
I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
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