Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.