Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
Fish are not the best authority on water.
It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.