All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.