If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.