Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
Defiance through compliance.
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent – it took me that long to start writing good.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
Every book should have a romance.
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
Agents and publishers only want one thing – good writing.
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
So my humor, I’d say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It’s an interesting mix.
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
A good butler should save his employer’s life at least once a day.
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.