Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

When much is taken, something is returned.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.