He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.