Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.