Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.

I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.