No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.