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

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.