That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.