Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.

We have to learn everything we do.

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.