I don’t ever remember being afraid of oldness.There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I d...
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.
We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop.You're no help, he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lim...
It was sort of like , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in had been four little old ladies and if, instead of stirring cauldrons and intoning dread incantations, they had ju...
I know how Gods begin, Roger. We start as Dreams. Then we walk out of Dreams into the Land. We are worshiped and loved, and take power to ourselves. And then, one day, there's no one left to worship u...
The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.
Idris: Are all people like this?
Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?Easy, said the cat. Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to i...
The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.
And the game begins anew.
If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; thatwitches are often betrayed by their appetites;dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always;hearts can be wel...
You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks ar...
By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.Not that year.Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to...
When I agreed to give this address, I started trying to think what the best advice I'd been given over the years was.And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of San...