I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.