There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?