I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

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.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.