She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I woul...
Reading is important.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
I was not scared of anything, when I read my book...
I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means Don't leave me here alone.
I loved that place as if it was a part of me, and perhaps, in some ways, it was.
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world...
Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, de...
Forgetfulness can sometimes bring freedom of a sort
Now me, said Mr. Vandemar.What number am I thinking of? I beg your pardon? What number am I thinking of? repeated Mr. Vandemar. It’s between one and a lot, he added, helpfully.
I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter writers than you, and there will always be, you know, people wh...
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
Rebirth always follows death.
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate t...
It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changi...
Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncoun...