All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is a secure marketing niche. But the cost of security is exclusion from literary consideration.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

We broke the world to make it whole.

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.