The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.