Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.