Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

A named thing is a tamed thing.