If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.