Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.