I think we ought to live happily ever after.
A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
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.
Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
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.
One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
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.
Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
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.
The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
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.
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.
Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.
You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.
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.
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.
"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.
Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.
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