The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The monster nevers dies.