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.

The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

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.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

The moonlight was enough. It would do.