She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.