I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

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)

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.

I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.