Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.