I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?