When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.