Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read le...
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be like...
It's a weird thing, writing.Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer's day. You can see every leaf on every tree, a...
My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I w...
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
کلی کتاب و مجله و روزنامه خوانده بود. می دانست اگر از خانه فرار کند ممکن است باافراد ناباب روبرو شود که ممکن بود بلایی سرش بیاورند.اما از طرفی افسانه های پریان را نیز خوانده بود، پس می دانست آدم های خ...
You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.
You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.
You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.
You are ignorant, boy, said Miss Lupescu. This is bad. And you are content to be ignorant, which is worse.
You are alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.
When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.
What do I do now?I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.
What about volcanoes?What about them?All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.
We win some, but we lose many. We lose a lot. We lose our friends and we lose our family. In the end we lose everything. No matter who's with us, we always die alone. When you fight your battles, what...
We all—adults and children, writers and readers—have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which...
They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all t...
They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.
There, that wasn’t as bad as I had feared, he said cheerfully. I’ve got my hammer back. And I had a good dinner. Let’s go home.