You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.