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.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

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

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.