I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

Coraline opened the box of chocolates. The dog looked at them longingly. "Would you like one?" she asked the little dog. "Yes, please," whispered the dog. "Only not toffee ones. They make me drool." "I thought chocolates weren't very good for dogs," she said, remembering something Miss Forcible had once told her. "Maybe where you come from," whispered the little dog. "Here, it's all we eat.