Fish are not the best authority on water.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.