A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.

She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.