The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.