I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)