Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.