Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.