Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.