On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Whenever it rains you will think of her.

The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.

I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.