To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.