It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

You can't polish a turd.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.