Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.