But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

As a writer, you are free.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.