But listen up Alex Rider.

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.