I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I am lost in the darkness of a downcast heart. Dream or reality. Let it be decided tonight.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.