People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

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

Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.