It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.